Research
Seed Grant Profile
64
2008-2009 Program
A Wearable Wireless Pharmaceutical Compliance Monitoring System
The project involves the design, development, and in vivo testing (on dog animal model) of a wearable wireless pharmaceutical compliance monitoring (PCM) system based on an array of magnetic sensors which continuously look for the passage of magnetic tracers that will be incorporated in solid-phase medications through patient's esophagus. The sensor array is planned to be mounted on a necklace worn by the patient and will be equipped with a wireless transceiver that sends the "dose ingestion event" to a wearable data delivery device (i.e. PDA or smartphone). The smartphone would be able to wirelessly report a patient’s compliance to the physician, caregiver, or researchers involved in new drug trials over the internet or telephone network. The smartphone could also be programmed to sound an alarm in case a dose is missed, thus helping the patient to better adhere with the prescribed medication schedule.
Investigators: Maysam Ghovanloo (Electrical and Computer Engineering, GT), Mark Braunstein, (Computer Science, GT), Keith Robinson (Saint Joseph's Translational Research Institute)