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Digital Pills Help Doctors Track RX
Opioid Painkiller Use
The ID-Cap is a standard hard gelatin or HPMC capsule with an embedded ingestible wireless sensor – the ID-Tag™. Each
time an ID-Cap is swallowed, the ID-Tag uses etectRx’s proprietary communications technology to transmit a very low power
digital message from within the patient’s stomach. (Image courtesy of eTectRx)
By Rachel Becker, THE VERGE
The pills are equipped with sensors pow-
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