Indicators + Guidelines + Genome: A Technology-Driven Framework for Chronic Disease Management Impact
Year: 2026
Type: preprint
Abstract: Chronic disease remains the largest and most expensive problem in medicine, yet fewer than half of patients with conditions such as hypertension reach and sustain control. The barrier is rarely a shortage of drugs, knowledge, or access to guidelines. The working set of medicines for the major cardiometabolic conditions is small, and the guidelines are established and public. The failure happens at the point of care, where no clinician can weigh a patient’s full set of variables against a lengthy guideline inside a short visit, and so providers default to familiar prescribing, which results in imperfect results, negative patient experience, and so the problem grows. This point of view proposes a three-layer, technology-driven framework to close that gap: patient indicators drawn from the health record (Layer 1), matched against published clinical guidelines with full provenance (Layer 2), and refined by pharmacogenomics where the evidence supports it (Layer 3). A deterministic rules core generates every recommendation, while an artificial-intelligence layer handles explanation and orchestration rather than clinical decisions. The paper maps honestly where each layer is strong and where it is still emerging, illustrates the approach with the most common drug class, statins, with an example of lipid management and the SLCO1B1 gene, and argues for locally owned, locally validated evidence. The aim is to support providers on the front line of chronic disease management with technology, enabling them to follow guidelines more easily and help patients reach control, not to replace provider's judgment.
Author: Augustus, Brent Luke
Language: English
Subfield: Health Information Management
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W7225321172