New Edible Microchips to Alert Doctors, Mobile Phones if Patients Do Not Takes Meds
source: http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/new-edible-microchips-to-alert-doctors.html
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The microchips will be unleashed by a partnership involving both an American biomedical company and a British healthcare firm.
Labeled as ‘digestible sensors’, the microchips are set up to send alerts to the mobile phone of a doctor or designated ‘caretaker’ if patient has strayed from their specified pill routine. The companies say that they are attempting to develop ‘intelligent medicines’.
Microchip Uses Electric Currents, Embedded Bluetooth Technology to Alert Mobile Phones
Upon taking the pill, it will be digitally recorded and time-stamped as they are digested in the body. The chips themselves are activated by stomach acid.
A spokesman for the healthcare company, Lloyds- pharmacy, cited the difficulties involved with remembering medications as a need for the invasive chips. Steve Gray, healthcare services director of the company launching the chips, stated:
Anyone taking several medications knows how easy it can be to lose track of whether or not you’ve taken the correct tablets that day.
At the center of the chip is a small silicon wafer that separates minor quantities of copper and magnesium, which in turn creates a microscopic battery that emits and electric currents upon coming into contact with the acidic environment of the stomach. The currents, given specific signatures to identify the drug taken, are picked up by a patch stuck on the skin of the patient. The patch records the information transmitted by the chip, and sends it out through Bluetooth technology to a mobile phone.
The maker of the chip, Proteus Biomedical, plans on rolling it out as a fully integrated system that can send out detailed alerts if an individual strays from their pharmaceutical schedule.
'In the future the goal is a fully integrated system that creates an information product that helps patients and their families with the demands of complex pharmacy,' said Andrew Thompson, the chief executive and founder of Proteus Biomedical.
http://www.activistpost.com/2012/01/new-edible-microchips-to-alert-doctors.html
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Varex_Sythe
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This has interesting implications for people who are taking medications for their mental well being, but it also has implications for people who are on a course of antibiotics. There are a lot of people who stop taking their antibiotics once they feel better despite the fact that they should take the full regiment of medication to make sure that they really are healthy. Also, it helps completely kill the disease and prevents antibiotic resistant strains like the resistant TB strain we now have.
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Varex_Sythe
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littlwarrior
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Actually this is cool, I wouldn't want it for me, but my brother is mentally disabled, he claims to take his meds but he does not, the longer he goes without his meds the worse and worse he gets. And he is one of those where if he is not stable he is a threat to himself and those around him. With this we could monitor whether or not he is actually taking his meds and their required doses.
- 4 months ago
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littlwarrior
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MotherForTruth
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it is my choice to take my medications or not.
- 4 months ago
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MotherForTruth
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Anonmaly
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See but that's okay, because grandma has Alzheimer's, and you're too stoned playing video games to actually be attentive....
So have your digital leash alert you (a leash brought to you by slavery in both Africa and Southeast Asia.... "rare earth minerals" dug by slaves in Africa, and of course the assembly by "employees" making pennies a day in China) that you got too high, and in the chase to level 2, have neglected your granny....
How thoughtful of Big Brother, always thinking for you....
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Anonmaly
