Chronic disease burden is increasing significantly across the world. These conditions are also expensive: annually, US healthcare system alone spends $345 billion on cardiovascular diseases and $245 billion on diabetes, compared to $171 billion on cancer.

No longer can we afford to focus on patients when they are in the clinic or the hospital alone. The definition of patient needs to change to cover what they truly are, sufferers of disorders irrespective of whether they are inside traditional healthcare settings or outside. Given the rising healthcare costs, prevention, better management to reduce complications and hospitalizations, and ensuring better care post-discharge to prevent readmissions, are all essential – each and every step of the continuum of care must be supported.

This bundle helps understand the landscape for two disease areas of diabetes and cardiovascular conditions, as well as for the emerging area of sleep.