Edible "Intelligent Pills" 105
Ian Lamont sends along a brief note from the Industry Standard about "intelligent" pills that can help doctors record information about drug dosages, heart rate, respiratory rate, and other metrics. The pills, being developed by Proteus Biomedicals, have "digestible sensors" made out of food products and are activated by stomach fluids. A receiver that is similar to a skin patch picks up the data and can be passed on to a 3G mobile network, and from there to hospitals or doctors' offices. According to the Proteus site, the sensors cost a few cents per pill. The devices, currently in clinical trials, made #8 on Wired's list of the top technology breakthroughs of 2008.
A boon to compliance monitoring (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh this is going to be a boon to compliance monitoring. With that kind of 24/7 monitoring
it becomes easy to really lock down a person's life. All kinds of monitoring comes to mind,
from drug use to the absence of using prescribed medications, ingestion of approved or
unapproved foods or even 'unapproved' activities say that raise heartbeat or blood pressure
or again the lack of activities.
Re:If it works, it will become part of society. (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Problems... (Score:5, Insightful)
Seriously, there ARE other companies out there making software that are not diebold and can make something as simple as a counter
Re:Not what I need (Score:5, Insightful)
2 cents to make... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:A boon to compliance monitoring (Score:4, Insightful)
Oh this is going to be a boon to compliance monitoring. With that kind of 24/7 monitoring
it becomes easy to really lock down a person's life.
boon to compliance monitoring != an increase in compliance.
Visit 1.
Doctor: Patient, you need to do A,B,C
Patient: Doctor, I understand that I need to do A,B,C
Reality: XY% of patients do whatever they want
Visit 2.
Doctor: The tests show that you aren't making as much progress as you should be.
Patient: I know, [endless list of excuses] is why I haven't.
The only way to lock down a person's life is to literally lock it down.
That's why everyone who can afford it does in-patient therapy/rehab/weight loss (or gain)/etc.