Sensor necklace aims to increase elderly and clinical trial participant drug compliance

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MagneTrace is a sensor necklace that sends the date and time a pill is swallowed to a wireless device. Assistant professor Maysam Ghovanloo hopes the device will increase drug compliance with the elderly and clinical drug trial participants. Credit: ...
MagneTrace is a sensor necklace that sends the date and time a pill is swallowed to a wireless device. Assistant professor Maysam Ghovanloo hopes the device will increase drug compliance with the elderly and clinical drug trial participants. Credit: Gary Meek

Researchers now have a possible solution for the one in three adults who fail to take their medicines as prescribed by their doctors, as well as for everyone else who occasionally forgets: a sensor necklace that records the exact time and date when specially-designed pills are swallowed, and reminds the user if any doses are being missed.


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