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The case for an inpatient teleNephrology program is not unlike that for other subspecialties via telemedicine: a rising disease burden combined with an increasing shortage of specialists. Like specialties more traditionally associated with telemedicine (such as neurology), having a team of nephrologists […]

A 45-year-old female with new onset Type 2 diabetes comes for an appointment at a health system’s primary care office or clinic. She has a Hemoglobin A1C of 15 percent—and she is having trouble managing it. Her primary care provider prescribes Metformin […]

Cardiovascular disease is the leading cause of death in the U.S., killing about 659,000 people annually. Improvements in medical therapy and advances in disease identification and prevention helped reduce the rate of death from cardiovascular disease from the 1990s until the early […]