Home Dialysis News

Patients on dialysis who underwent training to become a peer mentor reported a need for flexible training schedules, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

The American Society of Nephrology will provide scholarships to selected fellows for training in home dialysis as part of a partnership with the education group Home Dialysis University, according to a press release.

Most nephrology program directors and division chiefs surveyed said their fellowship programs were unable to provide adequate home dialysis training to fellows, according to data published in Kidney Medicine.

KANSAS CITY, Mo. — In this interview from the Annual Dialysis Conference, Michael A. Kraus, MD, discussed the 2026 home dialysis training guidelines being developed by the Facility Guidelines Institute.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — Although home hemodialysis utilization has increased since the pandemic, uptake still can be improved upon, according to a speaker at the Annual Dialysis Conference.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — In this interview from the Annual Dialysis Conference, Eugene Lin, MD, MS, FASN, spoke about home dialysis policy and the profitability of switching from in-center dialysis.

KANSAS CITY, Missouri — When imagining the future of home dialysis in the United States, innovation and policy changes are required, according to a presenter at the Annual Dialysis Conference, here.

The nephrology community lost an expert in home dialysis on Nov. 15, 2022.

Kidney care professionals and policymakers continue to seek ways to eliminate longstanding racial and ethnic inequities in kidney health outcomes, including well-described disparities in use of home dialysis and transplantation.

CMS is making efforts to address health disparities in the Medicare End-Stage Renal Disease Program, and DaVita Inc. chief medical officer Jeffrey Giullian, MD, MBA, FASN, said dialysis providers need to make important changes to correct the imbalance.