In an era where nearly every consumer good and service — from books and groceries to babysitting and shared

rides — can be purchased

through an electronic transaction on a mobile device, it seems reasonable to think that more and more of our health care can also be managed
using apps on mobile devices. Proponents of these apps see the potential of digital technologies to shift care provision from physicians’ offices
and hospitals to the patient’s home or anywhere with reasonable Wi-Fi connectivity.

The potential benefits of digital health seem particularly compelling for managing chronic conditions such as diabetes and hypertension. In
these cases, providers typically prescribe multipart protocols — including medications, dietary restrictions, and
exercise — whose success depends on patient compliance and choices that take place on a daily basis outside of the formal health care
system.

The country’s health spending or Current Health Expenditure (CHE) reached PhP 895.88 billion in 2020, 12.6 percent higher compared with PhP
795.64 billion in 2019.

Total Health Expenditure (THE), which comprises of CHE (89.2%) and Health Capital Formation Expenditure (10.8%), recorded PhP 1.00 trillion
in 2020. It grew by 10.4 percent from PhP 909.50 billion in 2019. The share of THE to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at current prices was
5.6 percent, up from 4.7 percent in 2019.

Top 10 risks contributing to total number of DALYs in 2019 and percent change 2009–2019, all ages combined

In general, Chronic Disease Management System (CDMS) is to suppose to link clinical data of chronic condition patients across all the
administrative database that hospitals or other medical care providers maintain on an ongoing basis.

With CDMS, medical practitioners get instant access to each patient’s chronic disease records, syndicated physical characteristics charts, test
results or history of any clinical decisions previously taken while delivering medical care service to the patient.

Thus, the CDMS introduces systematic summaries and reports related to communication content, updates on treatment plans and treatment
process itself that improves the medical care quality significantly.

Conclusion

Chronic disease management helps in promoting the idea of preventive health care coordination and can be regarded as the long-term trend in
delivery medical service worldwide

Apps for chronic illness management encourage patients to take more responsible health-related decisions and enable them to control their
condition with the assistance of health providers’ teams.

Once developed and implemented by professionals, chronic disease management software turns out to be not only cost effective health
management solution for providers, patients, and hospital systems but a game-changer in terms of bringing significant improvement of health
outcomes in efficient handling of chronic illness progression.