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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved a "digital pill" that contains a sensor intended to track whether a patient has taken their medicine:
For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a digital pill — a medication embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether, and when, patients take their medicine. The approval, announced late on Monday, marks a significant advance in the growing field of digital devices designed to monitor medicine-taking and to address the expensive, longstanding problem that millions of patients do not take drugs as prescribed.
Experts estimate that so-called non-adherence or noncompliance to medication costs about $100 billion a year, much of it because patients get sicker and need additional treatment or hospitalization. "When patients don't adhere to lifestyle or medications that are prescribed for them, there are really substantive consequences that are bad for the patient and very costly," said Dr. William Shrank, chief medical officer of the health plan division at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center.
Ameet Sarpatwari, an instructor in medicine at Harvard Medical School, said the digital pill "has the potential to improve public health," especially for patients who want to take their medication but forget. But, he added, "if used improperly, it could foster more mistrust instead of trust."
(Score: 2) by frojack on Wednesday November 15 2017, @06:27PM (4 children)
TFA tries to bore you to death before getting to the point.
Also:
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.
(Score: 2) by bob_super on Wednesday November 15 2017, @07:20PM
Step 1, Monday morning: tell your employees that, per secret agreement to escape prison, drug dealers in the area have been putting those chips in their products for a little while.
Step 2: pull out some gizmo with wires, and announce that you will now conduct a drug test.
Step 3: watch some of the employees' reactions. Remember the ones who anxiously ask whether the chip works if crushed or boiled. Plan to drug test any of those that you want to get rid of.
Step 4: Tell them that it was a joke to remind them that the drug-free policy isn't a joke.
Step 5: Watch how many people quit.
(Score: 3, Insightful) by Azuma Hazuki on Wednesday November 15 2017, @10:18PM (1 child)
Oh, like a potato battery, *and* it's a digital sensor too. Does it snark at you and try to get you killed while messing with the laws of physics?
I am "that girl" your mother warned you about...
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday November 16 2017, @05:36PM
In layperson's terms, it's like a potato battery but with stomach acid instead of the potato.
(Score: 1) by anubi on Thursday November 16 2017, @01:42AM
I wonder if fidgeting with a flashlight cell would spoof it.
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