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Do you always follow your doctor's orders? What if your doctor, pharmacist, health insurance company or even employer could tell if you were taking your heart medication when you were supposed to? How about your HIV medicine?
Would you look forward to a call from your pharmacy or the health benefits department where you work if you missed taking your prescribed pill for gonorrhea, birth control, irritable bowel syndrome, incontinence, herpes or depression?
The Food and Drug Administration has agreed to review a revolutionary, first-of-its kind "digital pill" from Otsuka Pharma and Proteus Digital Health that will let third parties snoop on you and nag you if they see you are not doing what the doctor ordered.
The new pill includes a sensor that can transmit a signal. It is combined with Otsuka's psychiatric medication Abilify, a drug used to treat bipolar disorder and depression. Patients using the pill will also wear a patch.
Once you swallow the pill, a message can be sent back to whoever is registered to get it — doctor, pharmacist, nurse, probation officer or all...