Just as Pharmacy is catching up with relatively old robotic technology for their dispensaries and ditching tablet counters. Blue-tooth wireless mobile technology has advanced, and has been incorporated into miniature integrated medical devices.For example patients BP and Epilepsy-related brain waves can be monitored remotely with information from devices can be worn, carried or placed in your bandanna. Medication doses can have miniature devices embedded into them so they can be swallowed by patients and underwear can monitor a patient’s vital signs.
The Bluetooth-powered medical devices can provide both medical body area monitoring and remote patient monitoring, if connected with a mobile phone or i pad. Physicians and healthcare providers can achieve an always-connected health care environment.The challenge is for the medical device manufacturers and programmers to create software that supports these types of devices. In many cases, manufacturers will be required to use software developers from different domains to ensure ease-of-use, patient friendly and robust software to support such devices.
Compliance will be able to be monitored remotely, before most pharmacies have truly embraced the New Medicine Service. This really is big brother. However if this remote monitoring helps to reduce hospital admissions and optimise medicine budgets it may truly save lives but at what cost to our civil liberties?