Smart pills and the future of medicine | 合法醫療器材資訊網

2021年2月23日—Anewgenerationoftech-enabledpillsisaimingtohelpmeasureadherenceinpeopletakingmedicinesregularly.Whenthepatientswallowsthe ...

The first medical pills date from the ancient Egyptians and, apart from the ingredients, not much has changed ever since: you just swallow them and hopefully theyre good for what ails you. But now revolutionary tech-enabled pills are helping doctors and patients in new ways. 

One of the biggest problems for traditional pills is something call adherence: that is, how often patients actually take the medication in the way the doctor advised. Its thought that levels of adherence may be around 50%: in other words, around half of patients take the medication at the wrong time, or wrong dose, or dont take it all. 

There are many good reasons why that might be the case – people might have problems with remembering when to take medicine or they might not be able to open the packaging, for example – but if you want to get the best effect from a medicine, its better to take it as prescribed...