GreenMed Info has;
Post date:
Friday, August 3rd 2012 at 1:00 pm
Written by:
Sayer Ji, founder
The company, Proteus Digital Health, gained FDA approval for its 1 square millimeter device (the size of a grain of sand), which it believes will "shift the care paradigm" into an era of digital medicine.
According to Proteus Digital Health's website:
The company added "As a result, you can be sure you're taking your medicines as prescribed, while at the same time receiving unprecedented feedback on your physical response to treatment."Digital Medicines are the same pharmaceuticals you take today, with one small change: each pill also contains a tiny sensor that can communicate, via our digital health feedback system, vital information about your medication-taking behaviors and how your body is responding.
The aim of the "ingestible sensor" is to electronically verify patient compliance in taking the medication. Proteus Digital Health estimates that over 50% of patients do not get the full benefit from the pharmaceuticals they take because of taking the wrong dose or taking the medication inconsistently.
There are huge sums of money at stake in getting people to take their drugs as prescribed. In a 2008 article published in the drug industry marketing journal Pharma Marketing News titled "Moving The Needle on Adherence: Highlights from the 7th Annual Patient Compliance, Adherence and Persistency," it was estimated that an 18% improvement in compliance would translate into increased revenues of approximately $8000 per patient a year.
Here is how the technology intends to work:
What are the unintended, adverse health effects of this technology? Has it been sufficiently safety-tested? These are questions that remain largely unanswered, but have already been raised in connection with other proposed RFID technologies intended to be implanted within the human body.The Proteus ingestible sensor can be integrated into an inert pill or other ingested products, such as pharmaceuticals. Once the ingestible sensor reaches the stomach, it is powered by contact with stomach fluid and communicates a unique signal that determines identity and timing of ingestion. This information is transferred through the user's body tissue to a patch worn on the skin that detects the signal and marks the precise time an ingestible sensor has been taken. Additional physiologic and behavioral metrics collected by the patch include heart rate, body position and activity. The patch relays information to a mobile phone application. With the patient's consent, the information is accessible by caregivers and clinicians, helping individuals to develop and sustain healthy habits, families to make better health choices, and clinicians to provide more effective, data-driven care.
The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which has recently come under criticism for their financial support of GMO agriculture, 'edible' and 'flying' vaccines, pesticide-laden traditional scarves, and other questionable technological interventions ostensibly to reduce suffering, are also prominently figured partners on the Proteus Digital Health website.
The European Union was the first to approve Proteus' system device in 2010, indicating the market for the technology is global.
Disclaimer: This article is not intended to provide medical advice, diagnosis or treatment. Views expressed here do not necessarily reflect those of GreenMedInfo or its staff.
Thank You Mr Sayer Ji.
Do we Have to snark this latest from FDA for you?
Or isn't the built in potential/pre-planning for yet another enormous brick on the road to hell being dropped here immediately apparent to Everyone? Scanners integrated into mall security systems? Scanners integrated into public building metal detectors? "Step over here for a minute Miss, It appears you haven't taken your Political Health/Mind and Mood Control Pill Today."
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