Take Your Medicine: This $1.5 Billion Health Startup’s Smart Pills Keep Patients From Forgetting

Proteus Digital Health, a Redwood City, California-based tech health startup, hopes to create that loop. Founded in 2004 by Andrew Thompson and Dr. George Savage, the company makes a 1 millimeter sensor—“the size of a poppy seed or grain of sand,” says Thompson—that is embedded in medications, which are then swallowed. The sensor, made of “elements found in a typical diet,” including magnesium and copper, says Thompson, will turn on when it contacts a patient’s stomach acid. It then sends a signal a the palm-size patch that patients wear on their skin. The patch, which also tracks physiological signs like steps, rest and heart rate, then sends information to a smartphone app for patients and the desktop browser portal that doctors use.

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