Continuously improving the quality of life of people with chronic kidney failure is and will always be a key pillar of our strategy.
Rice Powell CEO
Strategic core competencies
Fresenius Medical Care aims to further consolidate its expertise as the world’s leading provider of top-quality dialysis treatments and health care products and to apply them as a basis for sustainable, profitable growth. Moreover, in the area of Care Coordination, our goal is to provide holistic care and improve outcomes for patients as well as payors while increasing Fresenius Medical Care’s corporate value in the long term. Our strategy is based on four core competencies.
Innovating products
Developing innovative products to achieve even better outcomes for our patients is an inherent part of our strategy of sustainable and profitable growth. We leverage our technology leadership position in dialysis to enhance treatment options in such a way that both patients and health care systems can benefit. This is also why we are committed to further expanding home dialysis. In addition, we are constantly striving to identify new business opportunities in value-added technologies and approaches, for example through our venture capital company Fresenius Medical Care Ventures.
Operating outpatient facilities
By leveraging our experience gained in approximately 4,000 proprietary dialysis clinics in around 50 countries, we have the knowledge to operate and manage stand-alone outpatient clinics efficiently and capture economies of scale. We are continously to optimize and modernize our processes and adminstrative structures.
Standardizing medical procedures
Our goal is to standardize medical treatments and clinical processes while continuing to ensure high-quality clinical outcomes. In 2019, we established the Global Medical Office with the aim of enhancing knowledge transfer across the Company. By adding the Global Chief Medical Officer to the Management Board as of January 1, 2020, Fresenius Medical Care is underlining the importance of interlinking clinical science with therapy. With over 52 M dialysis treatments performed per year, we have one of the largest dialysis databases worldwide. We intend to use this information to standardize medical setups, open new clinics and integrate acquired clinics into our network based on proven and efficient concepts.
Coordinating patients efficiently
In an environment of growing patient numbers and changing health care systems, Fresenius Medical Care sees significant potential in providing value-based care – especially in the U.S. This approach focuses on selling solutions, providing holistic care and receiving outcome-based reimbursement rather than offering single products or services.
Depending on the type of health care network in which we participate, we coordinate the care of our patients with other providers including physicians and other health care facilities. We then use the accumulated patient information to create predictive analytics.
