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Engage, Educate, Empower: Transforming Kidney Care
In our conversation with Jeff Giullian, MD, MBA, chief medical officer with DaVita Kidney Care, we dive into 4 important aspects of kidney care: prevention, social support, integrated care, and patient support.
Welcome to the latest episode of Managed Care Cast and our conversation with Jeff Giullian, MD, MBA, chief medical officer with DaVita Kidney Care. In this interview, we dive into 4 important aspects of kidney care: prevention, social support, integrated care, and patient support.
Throughout this conversation, highlights include how to best manage chronic kidney disease among high-risk populations, community education initiatives from DaVita that focus on kidney health resources, and comorbidity management. Dr Giullian underscores the value of integrated care teams in managing comorbidities and improving patient outcomes, emphasizes the role of technology in enhancing care without replacing the essential human touch, and addresses the need to reduce health disparities.
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