Home Treatment Options
Telehealth Resources for Healthcare Providers and Patients
- Telehealth is here to stay. Here’s why. Provider Resource: Handout
- Telehealth is here to stay. Here’s why. Patient Resource: Handout
- Home Dialysis Patient Telehealth Visit: Checklist
- Telehealth Visit Checklist for Providers: Handout
- Conversation Starter for Patients and Their Health Care Team: Handout
- Working Through Feelings: Patient Resource
- Group Training Best Practices: Video
Webinars
Other Website Resources
- The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology (ONC): Link
- National Consortium of Telehealth Resource Centers (NCTRC): Link
- AKF’s Kidney Health Coach: an online program to provide knowledge, tools, and resources to become a Kidney Health Coach and provide education to the community
- Have you seen IPRO’s Kidney Choices App for patients? Or the CKD Screening App for providers?
- The International Society of Nephrology (ISN) and Kidney Disease Improving Global Outcomes (KDIGO) recently released a “CKD Early Identification & Intervention Toolkit”
- Looking to learn more about Kidney Disease and earn free CEU’s? Check out NKF’s Professional Education Resource Center for a list of free courses.
- Match D tool for assessing patients for home
- Questions to Ask When Considering a Home Dialysis Therapy from the NCC
- The National Kidney Foundation’s “Chronic Kidney Disease Change Package 2023"
- National Kidney Foundation's Kidney Numbers and Heat Map
- The American Kidney Fund’s “Know Your Kidneys” program that uses interactive tools to provide education about kidneys
- Myths and Barriers to Home Dialysis | ESRD NCC (youtube.com) - great presentation on overcoming myths and barriers in home!
Telehealth Platforms
If you have questions or need assistance, please contact us:
- The National Telehealth Policy Resource Center: Video Resources
- Medicare Coverage and Payment of Virtual Services: Video
- Why Using Telehealth is Important During COVID-19 (North Carolina): Video