Dialysis-X
Needle-free dialysis treatment. At home or in the clinic.
An implanted vascular access platform — with remote patient monitoring — designed to remove one of the biggest barriers to home dialysis: repeated needle cannulation.
Safer, easier, and less expensive dialysis treatment for home-based dialysis.
The problem
Needles are the biggest barrier to home dialysis.
Patients on hemodialysis are cannulated with large-bore needles — often more than three times a week, for years. The process is painful, technically demanding, and a recurring source of access-related complications.
For most patients and their care partners, self-cannulation at home is not a realistic expectation. As a result, treatment stays anchored to the clinic — even when home therapy would offer a better quality of life.
The case for home dialysis is well established. Access is what holds it back.
The cost
In-center care is expensive. Home treatment eases both cost and longterm outcomes.
For providers, delivering hemodialysis in-center is expensive, and the costs of training and supporting patient transition to home dialysis remain commercially unattractive. Home-based dialysis can deliver more effective treatment, at up to 50% less cost.
For Medicare and private insurers, managing chronic kidney disease remains expensive and difficult despite the value-based care (VBC) focus. Reliable home dialysis access, with reduced risk of access-related complications, reduces comprehensive costs by up to 15% of the $50 billion spent each year by Medicare and Medicaid.
A new approach to vascular access — built for life outside the clinic.
Dialysis-X is developing an implanted vascular access platform designed to enable repeatable dialysis connection without needle cannulation of the vessel.
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Needle-free vascular access
An implanted device engineered to deliver repeated connection to the dialysis circuit without piercing the skin and blood vessel with a needle.
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A simple, easy-to-use connection
A connection workflow designed to be safe, repeatable, and obvious for use outside and within the clinic.
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Remote patient monitoring
FUTURE DEVELOPMENTA broader platform layer supports remote and continuous monitoring of patient vitals, without repeated blood draws or doctor's visits. It offers greater treatment visibility and care\u00a0continuity between patient, clinic, and the care team.
A different day for dialysis
Care that fits your life — not the other way around.
Removing routine needle cannulation reshapes what dialysis can look like — at home, with confidence, and without the recurring barrier that keeps so many patients anchored to in-center care.
- Less pain and less fear at each treatment
- A workflow designed to be safe, easy, and teachable at home
- Continuity of care between patient, clinic, and care team
Supporters & collaborators
Dialysis-X engages with academic, clinical, and industry partners across the dialysis access community.
White paper
See dialysis from the perspective of the provider and the payer.
So much is known about the impacts of dialysis on kidney-failure patients. We captured the challenges and impacts of existing needle-based access on dialysis providers and payers, and describe our vision for a needle-free system. The papers are available on request.
- The clinical case for rethinking vascular access
- The Dialysis-X needle-free access platform
- Design principles and the role of remote monitoring