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Microchip monitors your medicine intake

April 13th, 2009

In recent years, the use of microchips to monitor everything from your pet’s location to the whereabouts of suspected Alzheimer patients has increased. Now under development are microchips that can be implanted into medication, allowing a doctor in his office–or a central computer on the other side of the world–to know if and when you took your pills.

Microchips in pills could soon allow doctors to find out whether a patient has taken their medication.

The digestible sensors, just 1mm wide, would mean GPs and surgeons could monitor patients outside the hospital or surgery.

Developers say the technology could be particularly useful for psychiatric or elderly patients who rely on a complicated regime of drugs – and are at risk if they miss a dose or take it at the wrong time.

It could also be used for the chronically ill, such as people with heart disease, to establish whether costly drugs are working or whether they are causing potentially dangerous side effects.

The sensors could even remind women to take the Pill if they forget.

Perhaps this tracking device will be monitored by the Brussels Electronic Accounting Surveillance Terminal, a supercomputer found at EU headquarters in Belgium?

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