title: Ingestible Biosensors for Real-Time Medical Adherence Monitoring: MyTMed.
abstract: Medication nonadherence complicates the management and treatment of chronic disease. Nonadherence to medications is associated with significant mortality, accelerated disease progression, and increased health care costs. My/Treatment/Medication (MyTMed) is a novel adherence monitoring system that obtains direct measures of medication adherence/nonadherence. MyTMed consists of 1) a "digital pill" with a radiofrequency emitter that activates on contact with gastric pH; 2) a relay Hub that captures the radiofrequency signal and transmits it to 3) a cloud based server that connects patient and physicians via a bidirectional interface. In our increasingly mobile world, MyTMed is able to provide medication ingestion data and deliver interventions in real time that support adherence. We describe the patient-centered design of MyTMed as well as the behavioral theory supporting the interface architecture.
authors.affiliation: Emergency Medicine, UMASS Medical School.
authors.forename: Peter R
authors.initials: PR
authors.lastname: Chai
authors.affiliation: Behavioral & Preventive Medicine, The Miriam Hospital, Brown School of Public Health.
authors.forename: Rochelle K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Rosen
authors.affiliation: Emergency Medicine, UMASS Medical School.
authors.forename: Edward W
authors.initials: EW
authors.lastname: Boyer