Ingestible Sensors and Medication Adherence: Focus on Use in Serious Mental Illness [PDF]
Pharmacy, 2020 Background: Poor medication adherence is a major public health concern. Patients living with a serious mental illness (SMI) commonly present with non-adherence to their medication regimen, which can lead to relapse and hospitalizations. The high rates of
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Feasibility of an ingestible sensor-based system for monitoring adherence to tuberculosis therapy. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 Poor adherence to tuberculosis (TB) treatment hinders the individual's recovery and threatens public health. Currently, directly observed therapy (DOT) is the standard of care; however, high sustaining costs limit its availability, creating a need for ...
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Digital Pills with Ingestible Sensors: Patent Landscape Analysis
Pharmaceuticals, 2022 The modern healthcare system is directly related to the development of digital health tools and solutions. Pills with digital sensors represent a highly innovative class of new pharmaceuticals. The aim of this work was to analyze the patent landscape and
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JMIR Mental Health, 2022 Serious mental illness is a chronic condition that requires long-term pharmacological treatment. Adherence to oral antipsychotic medication has specific nuances that affects patients and physicians alike.
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Study protocol to evaluate an integrated intervention using a pill ingestible sensor system to trigger actions on multifaceted social and behavioral determinants of health among PLWH: an open-label, usual care-controlled, randomized trial [PDF]
BMC Public HealthBackground A pillar in the effort to end the HIV epidemic, the “Undetectable equals Untransmittable” (U = U) campaign has led to reduced HIV stigma and empowered people living with HIV (PLWH).
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Ingestible electronic sensors to measure instantaneous medication adherence: A narrative review [PDF]
Digital Health, 2022 Objective Medication nonadherence contributes to significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. While many techniques to measure adherence exist, digital pill systems represent a novel, direct method of measuring adherence and a means of providing ...
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Issues in Continuous 24-h Core Body Temperature Monitoring in Humans Using an Ingestible Capsule Telemetric Sensor [PDF]
Frontiers in Endocrinology, 2017 BackgroundThere is increasing interest in the use of pill-sized ingestible capsule telemetric sensors for assessing core body temperature (Tc) as a potential indicator of variability in metabolic efficiency and thrifty metabolic traits.
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The Systematic Bias of Ingestible Core Temperature Sensors Requires a Correction by Linear Regression [PDF]
Frontiers in Physiology, 2017 An accurate measure of core body temperature is critical for monitoring individuals, groups and teams undertaking physical activity in situations of high heat stress or prolonged cold exposure.
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JMIR mHealth and uHealthBackgroundA digital health technology’s success or failure depends on how it is received by users. ObjectivesWe conducted a user experience (UX) evaluation among persons who used the Food and Drug Administration–approved Digital Health ...
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An ingestible device for automated sampling and location tracing in gastrointestinal tract. [PDF]
PLoS ONEFluids sampled from the gastrointestinal (GI) tract are of interest for evaluating the bioequivalence of oral medications, and more generally for evaluating GI-related diseases, and for profiling the individual gut microbiome.
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