Chronic disease management

Long-term conditions — diabetes, hypertension, heart failure, respiratory disease — account for most healthcare activity in most systems, and are managed rather than cured. Care is continuous, largely delivered outside hospital, and depends more on follow-up and self-management support than on any single intervention.

We cover this because health systems built around acute episodes handle it badly, and because most claims made for monitoring technology are really claims about whether anyone acts on what the monitoring finds.