Proteus Digital Health won FDA approval for what the company calls “the only device with an FDA-sanctioned claim for measuring medication adherence.” Proteus technology, the development of which we’ve been covering for a number of years now, uses tiny injestible sensors attached to drug tablets and a patch that can detect when they’ve been swallowed. The patch then uses its built-in Bluetooth antenna to share when every pill was swallowed with the matching smartphone app, which in turn passes the readings to family, caretakers, and the patient’s physician.
The underlying technology has been approved by the FDA since 2012, but the ability to accurately record when every pill was swallowed has only now been FDA-sanctioned to be used to measure medication adherence.
Link: Proteus Digital Health…
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