Medical professionals
Supporting care for multimorbid CKD patients
Our team of medical nurses and certified nutritionists can lessen your burden of caring for multimorbid CKD patients, supported by digital technology.
Medical device according to MDR
GDPR compliant
Based on international guidelines
Oska offers you
More time for patients
Oska’s care team removes the burden of counselling your patients towards positive behaviour change
Unique offer for chronic patients
Oska acts as an extension of your practice. Offer your patients unique care.
Fully covered by health insurance
Oska is free of charge for you and your patients if they register before the 31st Dec 2023.
Behaviour change support as part of your treatment
A healthy lifestyle can reduce the risk of death in CKD patients by up to 68%*
Developed with leading medical experts
Prof. Dr. med Klemens Budde
Senior Consultant for Nephrology at the Charité
Dr. med. Anh-Thu Hentschel
Specialist in internal medicine and nephrology
Prof. Dr. Christoph Wanner
Member of the Nephrology Guidelines Commission
Barbara Contzen
Nephrological nutritional counselling
Prof. Dr. med. Jügen Wagner
Professor of Nephrology at the University of Heidelberg
Dr. med. Jennifer Franke
Specialist in cardiology and internal medicine
"Oska educated me about the link between high blood pressure and kidney damage and helped me integrate new healthy habits into my daily life. I had a blood pressure of 200! Thanks to Oska it is now back to 120. Who knows what would have happened otherwise?"
Susanne Meiss, 63
Oska user
Oska supports your patients
- Understanding the condition
- Medication adherence
- Blood pressure and diabetes control
- Salt and nutrition
- Sport and exercise
How it works
Enrol
Register your patients for the Oska programme. The process can be delegated and takes 2 minutes.
Care jointly
The Oska team helps you as a practitioner to introduce new healthy habits to your patients.
Receive updates
You will receive regular updates on the progress of your patients.
How can your patients participate?
Contact us to make Oska available to your patients.
Enrol affected persons with CKD 1-5 (ICD-10: N18.1-5, N19, without dialysis*). The process can be delegated and takes 2 minutes.
The Oska team takes over: we contact the patients and help them to install the Oska app.
*Excluded are pregnant women, people with dementia and dialysis patients.
Kidney disease - the silent killer
Complications could often be avoided if evidence-based guideline recommendations were implemented between doctor visits
50%
of patients do not take their medication regularly2
80%
of patients do not adhere to the recommended amount of salt 3
80%
of patients do not follow the dietary recommendations 4
60%
of patients do not reach the recommended activity level 5
*1) Ricardo et al. Am J Kidney Dis 2015; 65(3):412-24
2) Beispiel Hypertonie: Vrijens et al. The BMJ 2008; 336(7653):1114-7
3) Strohm et al. Ernährungsumschau international 2016; 62-70
4) Kaesler et al. Eur J Clin Nutr 2021; 75(9):1389-1397
5) KDIGO recommendation is 150mins per week. Kaesler et al. 2021, show 70% do not reach this target
