Proteus Digital Health’s Ingestible Sensor Reports When Granny Takes Her Meds

A signal transmitted by the embedded sensor when a pill dissolves is picked up by a Bluetooth-enabled skin patch and sent to a remote phone app, notifying a designated caregiver that dosing is on track – or not. Both Novartis and Otsuka are trying the technology, and Proteus is developing its own line of digitized generics.

Proteus Digital Health Inc. won FDA approval July 30 for technology that helps patients stay on track with their medicines by building sensors into the pills they swallow, but the medical device is bound for pharma as part of an integrated solution to one of health care’s knottiest problems: compliance.

The ingestible sensor will help the pharma industry bridge the “efficacy-effectiveness gap,” George Savage, Proteus co-founder and chief medical officer, said in an interview. Many wonderful drugs have been proven...

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