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One company is working on creating pills with tiny chips to keep track of when a patient is medicating, in order to maintain the correct schedule.
This digital feedback technology can prompt patients to take their medicine and even ask them to take a walk if they have been inactive for too long.
Besides reminding you to take a pill, this technology could be used to track complex medical routines in the future. 
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The Food and Drug Administration has just approved a device that is integrated into pills and let’s doctors know when patients take their medicine – and when they don’t.
Adherence to prescriptions is a serious problem, as about half of all patients don’t take medications the way they’re supposed to. But with patients doctors now becoming big brother, that statistic could change drastically.
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