T-Haler digital inhaler turns battling asthma into an instructional game. Edible Chip Medicine in Britain by September. Soon, Britain would have a tablet which would have an edible microchip fitted in it that would do great wonders for patients. One could call it a personal assistant as it would pass on a message to a patient on his electronic arm patch that the medicine has been taken properly or not. The system which is known as Helius System would perform many other exciting functions. Some of the many would be that it would allow patient to record its medical performance which he later could show to his GP.
The medicine which has microchip of the size of a grain of rice would also alert patient about the next dose timings. It would be of great use for elderly patients as they are not able to remember all the medicines which they have to take and at what time. It is one such pill which would also track records of patent that whether or not he is taking enough sleep and doing his exercises. It should however be noted that this medicine would be offered privately. Please, enable ads on this site. Edible microchips could monitor UK patients' temperature and heart rate. By Tom Allsop, 19 January 2012 Helius edible pills monitor patients’ reaction to treatments (Photograph: Proteus Biomedical) Lloyds Pharmacy plans to start selling Helius pills, developed by US company Proteus Biomedical, in September 2012.
Helius pills monitor patients’ reaction to treatments, and send the information to their mobile phone or computer. Helius contains a soluble microchip, which patients take alongside their usual medicine. It reacts with the stomach acid and gives off an electrical pulse, which is received by an adhesive patch on the patient’s body. Lloyds Pharmacy’s business development director, Chris Frost, said the UK could be the first country to adopt the technology. ‘Until now, the pills have only been used in trial scenarios in the US,’ he said. Patients will pay around £50 a month for the service. In the UK, an estimated £396m of NHS money is wasted on unused medicine every year. Edible microchip capable of transmitting data to a smartphone or computer. In the UK, “smart pills” or pills with edible microchips embedded in them, are expected to be released to the public in a few months.
These intelligent pills, currently being developed by Proteus Biomedical, have many benefits. The microchip, which is capable of transmitting physiological data, looks like a small black speck of sand and is composed of materials that are nontoxic. This means the smart pills can remind patients of upcoming medication doses and even report back to their doctor when they have taken it. The system captures exactly what medications have been taken. The iMedicalApps team has previously reported on devices that incorporate sensors into mobile technology, such as BlueHR — a fitness heart rate monitor by Wahoo Fitness— which can sync to your iPhone 4s via bluetooth and without the need for addition adaptors. The smart pill, however, is a new twist on remote patient monitoring. The microchips activate when they come in contact with stomach acid. New 'smart' pill tells patients when drugs dose due.
Say hello to intelligent pills. Newspapers in the United Kingdom have jumped on the news that patients will soon be able to purchase ‘intelligent pills’ containing sensors to monitor their medication use. Nature looks at what these pills can do. What is the latest news? Proteus Biomedical, a company based in Redwood City, California, announced on 13 January that it would be launching a “digital health product” in the United Kingdom in collaboration with the pharmacy chain Lloydspharmacy. Proteus Biomedical Pills housing tiny microchips are able to monitor a patient's use of medications. 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. “The most important and basic thing we can monitor is the actual physical use of the medicine,” says Andrew Thompson, chief executive of Proteus.
New smart pill tells patients when the next dose is due. A patch on the skin will pick up a signal once tablet is swallowed and relay this to a smart phoneThe system will be offered to patients taking medication for heart conditions and diabetes By Jenny Hope and Claire Bates Updated: 12:20 GMT, 17 January 2012 Smart pills that tell patients and their doctors if medication is being taken properly are to go on sale in Britain. Patients take their drugs along with an extra tablet embedded with a tiny edible sensor which sends back information to a receiver in the form of a patch worn on the shoulder or arm. This tracks when the drugs were taken and the dose, as well as monitoring heart rate and body temperature.
It also alerts a patient to when the next dose is due and records whether the patient is sleeping well or taking enough exercise. Innovation: The shoulder patch logs what time the pills reach the patient's stomach and sends the information to their smartphone The Helius system could prove useful for patients on complex medication regimes. Now, smart pills that tell you and your doc when the next dose is due. Help is at hand for those who often forget to take their pills. Smart pills that tell patients and their doctors if medication is being taken properly are set to go on sale in Britain. Patients take their drugs along with an extra tablet embedded with a tiny edible sensor, which sends back information to a receiver in the form of a patch worn on the shoulder or arm. This tracks when the drugs were taken and the dose, as well as monitoring heart rate and body temperature.
It also alerts a patient to when the next dose is due and records whether the patient is sleeping well or taking enough exercise. The information is downloaded to a computer or smartphone, which can be accessed, by the patient and their doctor, the Daily Mail reported. Older patients, in particular, may need to remember to take five or more different pills at a time, three times a day, for problems such as heart disease and diabetes. High street chain Lloyds-pharmacy has signed a deal with U.S. Disposable body metric patch from BodyMedia coming later this year. Devices to monitor your health and exercise are nothing new, and neither are devices that communicate with apps on your computer or smartphone. BodyMedia has been offering all of the above for some time (its latest product is a USB-only body monitors that saves $20 off the retail price of the Bluetooth version), but it's planning on trying a few new things in 2012 and 2013.
First is the Body Monitory Patch, a disposable body patch designed to track calorie burn, steps, and more — BodyMedia claims it collects 5,000 data points per minute. After a week's time, the patch can be simply removed, its data downloaded, and then it can be disposed. It's meant to have applications in health care, where long term tracking may not be as important as a short term diagnosis. BodyMedia was also showing off another prototype, a monitor that includes a 3G cellular radio on Sprint in lieu of Bluetooth for direct uploading into the cloud.
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