Most of what makes people ill in the long run is like this: diabetes, high blood pressure, obesity, back pain, anxiety. These are called chronic conditions. They are managed not in the clinic but in daily life, over months and years, between visits.
Digital programmes for chronic conditions pair an app with a coach, a device, and sometimes a doctor. Employers and insurers pay for them, because they expect to spend less on treatment as a result. India has more people with diabetes than almost any other country, and it has a group of programmes of its own.
Every company named here has posted software engineering jobs in India. Famous companies that don't actively hire software engineers in India are left out.
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The American programmes. Three companies here serve patients in America:
India's own programmes. Back to the bank manager from the start of this Market Segment. India's programmes are built around the glucose sensor. A continuous glucose monitor is a small sensor worn on the arm, which measures blood sugar all day. The manager can see at once what a plate of rice does to it.
The mind. Two companies work on stress and anxiety:
One company here sells to clinics instead of patients:
Three companies covered mainly in other Market Segments bring fitness into the same space:
The continuous glucose monitor was once a device for people who inject insulin. It is now sold to people with prediabetes, the stage before diabetes, and to healthy people too. The new weight-loss medicines have also changed what a programme for diabetes and weight is for. The Indian companies here are building for a country with a vast number of people with diabetes, and few diabetes specialists.
Who these companies hire, and for what, is on What digital health companies hire for.