Beyond Pill Sensors, Digital Tech Can Provide Insights On How Patients Use Drugs

During a panel at the 2022 BioFuture conference, panelists talked about how digital technology can provide data about drugs and devices on the market or in clinical trials.

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When Otsuka Pharmaceutical Co. Ltd. won US Food and Drug Administration approval for the first digital pill, Abilify MyCite (aripiprazole tablets with sensor), in 2017, it was viewed as an important milestone, as it showed the agency’s willingness to consider digital medicines, in this case one that included a sensor to track compliance. But while the drug was a commercial disappointment, the biopharma industry remains interested in using digital technology to better track how patients use drugs.

An 8 November panel at the 2022 BioFuture conference in New York highlighted some of the ways that digital health technology is enabling new advances both in keeping a closer eye on how drugs are performing

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