Here's what's happening in the Kidneyverse - your monthly dose of kidney innovation news, funding, policy, and reasons for optimism.💫👇🏼
Full update goes out next week:
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TOPICS:
🟪 Discovery & Innovation
🟦 Market Insight
🟨 Policy & Regulation
🟥 Community Voices
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STORIES:
🟪 The team at 34 Lives just rescued their first human kidney that had been deemed not usable for transplant! The company is on a mission to decrease the number of kidneys in the US that are recovered with the intent to transplant but subsequently not used. (h/t Kevin Longino)
🟪 Toku Eyes just received FDA Breakthrough Device designation for its MyKidneyAI product that uses #AI to analyze retinal images from routine eye exams to detect CKD risk in people with diabetes. (h/t Ehsan Vaghefi)
🟦 Outset Medical, Inc. announced it has received FDA 510(k) clearance of TabloCart™ with prefiltration! (h/t Fierce Healthcare)
🟨 CMS announced the proposed Increasing Organ Transplant Access Model earlier this week. The mandatory model is designed to support better outcomes for people living with kidney disease by incentivizing an increased number of kidney transplants. (h/t SMIT PATEL💊📲)
🟨 A newly introduced bill would provide funding for staff assistance and more training options for home dialysis. The legislation proposes covering the cost of in-home health care support staff for up to 90 days with an add-on payment to the dialysis payment bundle. (h/t Kerstin Leuther, PhD)
🟨 The Apple Watch AFib feature just became the first #digitalhealth product to receive FDA approval under the MDDT program. It will be used as a tool to assess atrial fibrillation burden estimates within clinical studies. (h/t Jaydeo Kinikar)
🟥 On May 6, 2024, the Kidney Health Initiative convened a 50 person vascular access workshop to identify opportunities and challenges for much-needed innovations with POVs shared b/n care partners, patients, and clinical care teams with entrepreneurs, companies, investors, NIDDK, and FDA. (h/t Mark David Lim, Ph.D. PMP)
🟥 For those following the latest VBC and CKCC news, a comment thread on Nishant Jalandhara's latest post is an insightful collection of diverse POVs on what's happening in the space. It includes both high-level guiding wisdom and in-the-weeds candor on what it takes to participate in these models. (Much) more to come on this front via Signals From [Space].
🟥 An article in MedCity News talks about the polarizing rhetoric around digital health these days. Authors Alyssa Jaffee and Mona Siddiqui, MD, MPH, MSE share thoughts on the early innings for #healthtech with examples like NOCD, Jasper Health, GroundGame.Health, Waymark, and Author Health.
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