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Insights and the latest news on Healthmap Solutions and all things chronic care.
Renal Care Management: Protecting and Maintaining Kidney Function Through Dietary Choices
Healthmap Care Navigation teams include licensed dietitians who help CKD patients make food choices that minimize further kidney damage and slow disease progression.
Kidney Disease Management: Screening for Social Determinants of Health
One of the major challenges in kidney disease management lies in identifying and addressing social determinants of health (SDoH). Here are the screening tools and how Healthmap helps.
Kidney Healthcare: The Early Signs of Chronic Kidney Disease
CKD can be present even in patients without diabetes or hypertension. Here are the early warning signs of chronic kidney disease and the tests that identify it.
Dr. Stephanie Toth-Manikowski Named Corporate Medical Director of Healthmap Solutions
Nephrologist Stephanie Toth-Manikowski has joined Healthmap as Corporate Medical Director, with work that includes identifying advanced kidney healthcare.
Kidney Disease Management: Protecting Kidney Health, Preserving Kidney Function
The best way to manage CKD is to avoid kidney damage in the first place. Here is our overview of the diet and lifestyle choices that protect kidney health and preserve kidney function.
Kidney Disease and Renal Care Management: The Heart of the Matter
CKD and cardiovascular disease share common precipitators, such as diabetes and hypertension, so a person diagnosed with CKD is likely to have heart disease.
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Do Primary Care Providers Have the Time for Kidney Disease Management?
There aren’t enough hours in the day to provide adequate care, particularly for chronic and acute disease patients, while meeting recommended guidelines.
Health Equity and Kidney Disease Management
Minority populations are more likely to develop CKD and progress to ESRD. We examine the challenges of kidney disease management for people of color and how value-based kidney care can help.
Diet and Kidney Disease Management
Diet is an essential element of kidney disease management. The dietary plans our registered dieticians develop are as individual as the members we serve.
Kidney Care Innovation: The Next Best Action Strategy
Healthmap’s Joe Vattamattam and Dr. Stephanie Toth-Manikowski explain how the “next best action” approach turns CKD risk scores into the single most impactful intervention for each patient and provider.
Healthmap Leaders on Growth, AI, and the Future of Healthcare
CEO Eric Reimer and Chief Growth Officer Tom Gaffney look back on Healthmap’s strongest growth year, the Carium integration, and the industry trends shaping kidney care in 2026.
Making Predictive AI Actionable: Why Human Behavior and Physician Partnerships Are Key
Healthmap Co-founder and President Joe Vattamattam explains how predictive AI, physician partnerships, and behavior change work together to improve outcomes for people with chronic kidney disease.
Why CKD Patients Fall Through the Cracks and How Healthmap Bridges the Gaps
Dr. Howard Shaps explains why CKD patients fall through the cracks between office visits and how Healthmap’s risk models and care navigators help close the gaps.
Health Plan Strategies for Better Care
Dr. Beth Malko discusses the role of primary care in complex disease management and why health plans should choose clinical partners, not vendors, for CKD care.
Healthcare’s 800% Growth Champion
On Advancio Talks, Healthmap CEO Eric Reimer shares his path to the 2024 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year national award, how he scales health care companies, and how technology is changing kidney care.
Slowing Kidney Disease Progression Through Proactive Population Health Management
Nephrologist Dr. Stephanie Toth-Manikowski explains how early identification and multidisciplinary care slow kidney disease progression, reduce unplanned dialysis starts, and expand home dialysis.
Improving Kidney Health: An Interview with Joe Vattamattam
On the Becker’s Payer Issues Podcast, Healthmap President Joe Vattamattam discusses how data analytics and clinical expertise can transform kidney health management for health plans.
From Risk to Reward: Healthmap’s Strategic Expansion, An Interview with Tom Gaffney
Chief Growth Officer Tom Gaffney discusses Healthmap’s upstream focus on stage 3 CKD, its move to full-risk contracts, its expansion into Puerto Rico, and its growth plans.
Groundbreaking Population Health Strategies for Chronic Kidney Disease
CEO Eric Reimer walks through Healthmap’s population health approach to CKD: defining the right population, working with the providers members trust, and proving value to health plans.
2024 EY Healthcare Entrepreneur of the Year: Eric Reimer’s Journey to Innovating Kidney Care
Eric Reimer shares his journey to the 2024 EY Entrepreneur Of The Year national award, why Healthmap focuses on earlier-stage CKD, and his advice for health care leaders.
Improving Kidney Health Management: A Conversation with Eric Reimer
On the Becker’s Healthcare Podcast, Healthmap CEO Eric Reimer discusses why health plans should invest in kidney health management and what makes a program successful.
Better support for every step of complex care
Healthmap brings population health management, kidney and cardiac care, technology and analytics, and care navigation together to help health plans and providers support the people they serve with greater clarity and coordination.