FDA Approves World's First Pill with an Embedded Sensor

You can prescribe a patient medication, but you can't make them take it. Patient compliance has always been an issue in healthcare and one that digital health technologies such as wearables have tried to address. According to The New England Journal of Medicine an estimated 33 to 69 percent of medication-related hospital admissions in the US are due to poor medication adherence, meaning anywhere from about a third to over half of patients are not taking their medications when or as often as...