[Podcast] Improving Medication Compliance with PatchRx’s Smart Pill Bottle Cap
Written by: Ryan Carlson
Published: August 28, 2024
Welcome back to What to Expect When You’re Connecting, the Soracom podcast where we speak with the people responsible for building and deploying IoT and their experiences. This includes the ins and outs of connected technology and how these devices are shaping the world at large. I’m your host, Ryan Carlson, and in our third season, we hope to expand our mission statement beyond being a podcast for the IoT curious and instead provide a voice for the industry as a whole. That means exploring new solutions, new technologies, and new ideas – something we’d love to talk about!
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In This Episode – Improving Medication Compliance With the PatchRx Smart Pill Bottle Cap
Remote medical devices have changed the way we approach healthcare, and that includes the staggering issue of medication non-adherence. It’s estimated that about one-quarter of all hospitalizations in the US – and as many as 125,000 deaths each year – can be attributed to medication nonadherence, making this a problem in search of a smart solution.
In this episode, we speak with Andrew Aertker, CEO and Co-founder of medication monitoring solution provider PatchRx, about the company’s smart-cap-based platform, which tracks medication intake and provides real-time data to patients, providers, and caretakers.
The discussion covers the technical aspects of the product, including:
- Connectivity to a gateway device with multi-carrier support.
- Facilitating reliable data transfer even in rural areas.
- The challenges of aligning a medical device with healthcare regulations.
- The crucial role of data in improving patient outcomes
- And more!
Through it all, Aertker details the PatchRx journey from a startup, discusses how a user-focused design philosophy helped improve engagement, and provides several anecdotes about the importance of medication adherence.
This episode is ideal for individuals hoping to introduce connected medical devices into a crowded marketplace, especially if their goal is to improve patients’ lives by fitting into their daily routines.
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