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FDA Approves Digital Pill That Tracks If Patients Have Ingested Their Medication (nytimes.com)
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times (Warning: source may be paywalled; alternative source): For the first time, the Food and Drug Administration has approved a digital pill -- a medication embedded with a sensor that can tell doctors whether, and when, patients take their medicine. The approval, announced late on Monday, marks a significant advance in the growing field of digital devices designed to monitor medicine-taking and to address the expensive, longstanding problem that millions of patients do not take drugs as prescribed. Experts estimate that so-called nonadherence or noncompliance to medication costs about $100 billion a year, much of it because patients get sicker and need additional treatment or hospitalization. Patients who agree to take the digital medication, a version of the antipsychotic Abilify, can sign consent forms allowing their doctors and up to four other people, including family members, to receive electronic data showing the date and time pills are ingested. A smartphone app will let them block recipients anytime they change their mind. Although voluntary, the technology is still likely to prompt questions about privacy and whether patients might feel pressure to take medication in a form their doctors can monitor.
Doctors can tell if you've been taking your medication by checking... uh... your output.
I think the "digital" logo on this story isn't quite what you think it's for.
Nurse Ratched would have loved this...
Yeah, I'm sure they'll charge $1000 a pill for this, and it'll cost $1 a pill to produce. Assholes.
If that Texas dude had taken his medication, 26 people would still be alive. Guns don't kill people, unmedicated loonies do.
for people required to take anti-psychotics after being found Not Criminally Responsible for a crime for instance, or for sex offenders sentenced to chemical castration. Or anyone who is a threat to others if they don't take their meds.
I can just see people deciding to now empty their pills into a bowl and microwaving on high for a few minutes. That should fry whatever tattletale device they are tainted with.
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I have a CPAP, I already have to submit an SD card to them routinely to continue getting the insurance to cover medical supplies. Guess what's next?
Well, have you?
So, this is a pill you take to monitor whether you've taken your other pills, yes? How long does it remain in position to monitor the other pills? do you clean off this pill and retake in once it leaves your system? (Gross. :-)
If you're having trouble remembering to take your other pills why would you remember to take this one? The questions just go on. :-)
Resistance is futile. Bend over and get fucked.
This is easily beaten. Saw a demo a few years ago of these smart pills dissolved in vinegar. That was acidic enough to function as stomach acids. The pill still sent the ingested BLE signal just as if it was taken in a stomach.
(Female voice - medicine cabinet) If you feel you are not properly sedated, call 348-844 immediately. Failure to do so may result in prosecution for criminal drug evasion.
Yep, it does seem like you are being a bit of a pill about this..
Of the Grammaton Clerics
Admin, Admin
Hacked in 123456...
why people don't take it all on schedule. I get not liking pills, then don't go get them. But why not take them if you went to the trouble of going to the pharmacy?
Not only are one's personal choices killing themselves, so is the medical industrial complex. We cannot continue to feed an industry that makes a trillion+ a year to treat the symptoms of disease. Note exactly what I just said there. Modern medicine is a profitable market that provides job and income security because it doesn't fix anything. It is also unsustainable and our very own government knows this.
This story is just not about privacy. It is about a slippery slope of giving more and more power to an industrial complex that is pretty much a cancer itself.
This Medical control,
it appears you did not take your "mellow" pill this morning, you have 5 minutes to comply....
I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices failed to cry out in terror as they were slowly deprived of their freedom. I fear something terrible is happening.
'The Economy' is a giant Ponzi scheme whose most pitiable suckers are the youngest among us and the yet-unborn.
"It looks like you ingested another Viagra and your location is not at home. Would you like help to initiate divorce proceedings?"
Eternity: will that be smoking, or non-smoking? I Corinthians 6:9-10
When someone says, "Any fool can see
Where is the digital pill that tracks if you've ingeted your daily dosage of fake news / propaganda.
sudo rm -r -f --no-preserve-root /
pills all the way down?
No - its a tiny chip embedded in the pill. When it comes in contact with stomach acid, it is able to generate a Bluetooth Low Energy signal that can be detected by a patch you wear on your skin that in turn communicates with your iPhone.
So they gave you the evil digital pill , you don't want to take it , but you want the doctor insurance company to think you did ?
either :
- sql inject some vomit in the poorly designed pill app,
- or vomit in a thermos bottle, keep it at body temperature, and put your pills here when needed.
Time has come when we will need biological material to trick machines for our freedom. Doom days.
https://www.google.com/patents...
The rest of their patents are linked as references.
Stop worrying about the risks of nuclear power and start worrying about the risks of not using nuclear power.
Its quite silly to use these pills for most people, as simple android app will suffice. Doctor would fill when one should take app then push button and patient would run app that just adds alarms by downloading list from for example bluetooth/scan qr codes.