REPORT DESCRIPTION
Smart Pills Market – Overview
Smart pills can be used to monitor the drug adherence, temperature and some other parameters in the
patients. Smart pills are ingestible medical devices that can be taken orally to examine the gastrointestinal
tract (GI).The advanced technology of smart pills helps in monitoring of patients, disease diagnosis, and
help to improve the drug delivery. This might help physicians to monitor the patient’s conditions, and to
check the timely routine of patient’s medication. The smart pills may alert about the expiry date of
medicines, drug completion course and prevent from adverse events. These are expected to replace
conventional diagnostic techniques such as endoscopy and colonoscopy. The need for convenient, and
accurate treatment strategies has generated the interest in the research of smart pills.
Increasing geriatric population creates a large target group for smart pills manufacturers. This demographic
group is highly susceptible to Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD). The market has wide scope in the
monitoring and diagnosis of the diseases.