Smart pills could 'dumb down' medical care | 合法醫療器材資訊網

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Research suggest that the use of smart pills should be only after carefully evaluating their clinical efficacy against standard of care drugs…

Researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago have warned health care provider and policymakers to ‘slow down’ when it comes to allowing this technology in patient care settings.

Smart pills, also known as digital pill, are medications prescribed to patients that are equipped with edible electronic sensors that send wireless message to devices like patches, tablets or smartphones outside the body when they are ingested.

The first was prescribed as a schizophrenic, bipolar or major depressive disorder drug, and was approved for use in human in 2017 by the US Food and Drug Administration[1].

Some hope that the technology will help patients and doctors to track their drug regimen compliance...