
“This product, called Helius, will include ‘sensor-enabled tablets’ to monitor patients’ medication use. Compliance with doctors’ instructions has been identified as a problem area in medicine, especially when patients are prescribed multiple drugs that may need to be taken at different times. Proteus has designed sensors called ‘ingestible event markers’, which can be taken with pills or incorporated directly into medicines as part of the manufacturing process.”
http://www.nature.com/news/say-hello-to-intelligent-pills-1.9823
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