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MEDICATION & RESEARCH


Appy Pills We discover more about Elucid’s Pill Connect system, the digital pill bottle and


application designed to provide medical practitioners with real-time data on a patient’s dispensing pattern.


A patient not taking the medication prescribed to them can have detrimental effects on their health and, consequently, the healthcare system and country as a whole. If the patient does not take their medication, they don’t get better and are oſten put onto another medication. In other cases, they end up in hospital and the costs can even prove fatal.


The OECD report, published in June last year, estimated that poor medication adherence contributed to nearly 200,000 premature deaths in Europe per year and cost €125 billion in avoidable hospitalisations, emergency care and outpatient visits.


In response to this problem, Elucid mHealth created the Pill Connect system, which is completing its second clinical trial and will be in commercial use by 2020.


The Pill Connect patented technology provides doctors, CROs and pharma with real-time data on medication adherence through the use of advanced medicine packaging.


How It Works


• Preparation - A patient has an app loaded onto their mobile phone (iPhone or Android) which contains the pill regime – e.g. twice a day. A short but thorough training session of around 20 minutes is given to the patient on how to use the app and they are given a Pill Connect bottle loaded with pills.


• Patient use -The patient receives a reminder to take a pill via the app at a pre-determined time. The patient responds to the reminder and a pill is dispensed and the data sent to a control centre.


• Side-effects – If the patient is unwell or believes that they are suffering from a side-effect to the medication, they have the option to not take the pill and tell the investigator why.


• Non – adherence/not wanting to take pill - If the patient does not respond or has a reason why they can’t take the medication, a text or call can be made, automatically or


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manually, to prompt adherence or find out the reason for refusal.


• Comprehensive data - The doctor or administrator has comprehensive data on each patient’s dispensing pattern.


• Safety - The bottle is locked outside of the prescribed times to prevent double dosing.


The Pill Connect dispenser mechanism and electronics are designed to fit onto a standard pill bottle, which can easily be filled or refilled by a pharmacist. The capacity of the pill bottle will depend upon the pill size but will have a minimum of 30 pills. The dispensing mechanism can be adjusted to handle pills or capsules of different sizes.


Dr James Burnstone, CEO of Elucid mHealth, commented: “We are not trying to badger the patient but help them take the correct dose at the correct time. If a particular pattern does not work, the pattern can be changed. We have also been told that overdosing because elderly patients oſten forget to take medication and take the medicine twice and even three times is growing as the elderly population grows.


“We are starting with clinical trials as there has been so much interest from both pharma and major CRO. It is crucial that the patients in the trials take their medicine as prescribed.”


The NHS has also expressed a great interest particularly in crucial areas such as transplant rejection where adherence is not good and can result in the need for another transplant at huge cost to the taxpayer.


The first two trials were to test the robustness of the pill bottle and the successful transmission of data.


Dr Burnstone added: “We had over 90% robustness in our first trial and nearly 100% data transmission. We have been able to make a couple of tweaks which now even copes with the bottle being leſt in the blazing summer sun for some time!”


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