I have been waiting for such an advance. You can read my previous post here.
Compliance with taking medications is a huge problem in medicine. Studies show more than half of all prescriptions are either not filled or not taken. Everyone is familiar with how easy it is to forget to take medications. This problem becomes overwhelming in complex diseases such as cancer or Diabetes where patients are on rigorous schedules throughout the day. Even worse is the situation where the
patient may have compromised cognitive abilities.
A new development is a chip containing networked pill that reports back on medication taking and the dissolution of the pill as reported by MIT technology review.
The company behind the technology, Proteus Biomedical, of Redwood City, CA, calls its technology the Raisin system. Read more here.
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