‘Digital pill’ with chip inside gets FDA green light.
The chip works by being imbedded into a pill. Ingest it at the same time that you take your medication and it will go to work inside you, recording the time you took your dose. It transmits that information through your skin to a stick-on patch, which in turn sends the data to a mobile phone application and any other devices you authorize.
What else will it reveal?
August 26, 2012 at 6:03 pm
Sorry, McN. I’m missing something. Is the purpose of the chip to remind Patient to take next dose?
Stick-on patch not good for those allergic to adhesive tape.
August 26, 2012 at 7:00 pm
I would imagine that it would be good for hospitals. Keeps the paperwork moving right along. Instead of having RNs doing the checking, it will already be in the system.
August 26, 2012 at 7:00 pm
Otherwise it is another invasion of privacy.
August 26, 2012 at 7:57 pm
Interesting you say that because I was wondering about some nefarious apgplications Bi Broher might have for this technology.
August 26, 2012 at 7:59 pm
Thanks for th claification, McN. Yes, that would make hospital matters more efficient and probably precise.
August 27, 2012 at 6:16 am
Mary, they always tell you that it is for something good, and you that they have other uses which can become applicable later.