Practice Management

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.—Satellite Healthcare Inc. has launched a Facebook fan page to help educate the way the world views kidney disease, the company said in a March 9 news release.Satellite Healthcare encourages everyone to make World Kidney Day, March 11, the day they focus on their kidney health and invites them to learn more about the importance of their kidneys ...

DENVER—DaVita Inc. has launched a social networking site for patients at www.yourkidneys.com to help educate more people about chronic kidney disease.“DaVita is more than just a dialysis provider,” said Kent Thiry, chairman and CEO of DaVita.  “To help celebrate National Kidney Month, we unveiled a wonderful new tool called YourKidneys.com. If we can educate people, help more people get tested ...

The concept of offensive medicine offends some physicians. However, offensive medicine (as in the opposite of defensive) is not unpleasant for patients and it is beneficial to the practice.Going on the offense means running your practice like a business and being proactive instead of reactive. In my experience, most physicians are not particularly comfortable running their practices like a business. ...

LOS ANGELES—Valley Renal Medical Group is giving an Internet-based personal training and meal planning program to its staff as part of a greater effort to combat the growing trend of obesity.L.A.-based Valley Renal is a medical practice for obesity, diabetes, kidney disease and hypertension. It is giving the Web-based FitOrbit to their team of two-dozen staff members. In addition, Valley ...

This year’s World Kidney Day, which is on March 11, focuses on the worldwide explosion of diabetes and hypertension and how it’s affecting the growing number of kidney disease and dialysis patients.“As developing countries become increasingly urbanized, they are adopting the unhealthy lifestyles that promote diabetes and high blood pressure, the leading causes of kidney disease,” CNN wrote in a ...