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Laura C Plantinga, Department of Medicine, Emory University, 1841 Clifton Road, Room 552, Atlanta, GA, 30329, United States, Phone: 1 4047273460, Email: laura.plantinga@emory.edu
LCP, BGJ, CMO, and RM conceived the idea of DialysisConnect. LCP obtained funding for the project and wrote the first draft of the manuscript. AEV led the initial focus groups. RM led the technical team to develop DialysisConnect. JPL, TM, CMO, and KJ served as the site champions. CG was the first and most active user of DialysisConnect and served in a peer champion role, encouraging staff at both sites to use the system. LCP, CH, AEV, and AK analyzed and interpreted the system, survey, focus group, and electronic health record data, respectively. All authors have read and approved the final manuscript.
The authors would like to thank the providers and staff at Emory Dialysis and Emory University Hospital Midtown who facilitated this pilot, especially CG, Linda Turberville-Trujillo, Michelle Young, Kathy Oliver, Ifeoma Imonugo, Tomiwa Ishmail, and Kristy Hamilton, and the staff at Apex Health Innovations for developing DialysisConnect (Richard Dacre, Amber Webster, Alice Jordan, Alex Turnbull, Jasper Kirby, and John Scott) and facilitating compliance (Charlie Bonar). The authors would also like to thank Christian Park and Grace Xu for their assistance with the focus group sessions.
RM is the chief executive officer of Apex Health Innovations, which provided the technical expertise to build DialysisConnect. DialysisConnect was not, and is currently not, a commercially available product.
The research reported in this publication was supported by the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases of the National Institutes of Health under award number R18DK118467. The content is the sole responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institutes of Health.
©Laura C Plantinga, Courtney Hoge, Ann E Vandenberg, Kyle James, Tahsin Masud, Anjali Khakharia, Carol Gray, Bernard G Jaar, Janice P Lea, Christopher M O'Donnell, Richard Mutell. Originally published in JMIR Formative Research (https://formative.jmir.org), 10.06.2022.