National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences 5R44TR003071-03

Personalized multi-medication packaging with integrated real-time instrumentation to improve adherence

This award funds the development and commercialization of an NFC-based medication adherence technology by Insightfil to improve patient adherence and reduce treatment failures and hospitalizations.

Description

Medication non-adherence contributes to 45% of treatment failures, 700,000 annual hospitalizations, and one death every 19 minutes, making it responsible for $100B in preventable medical costs per year. To address the need for a cost-effective, usable/deployable/scalable, and highly versatile solution for real-time adherence detection at point of care, Insightfil is developing a novel disease and medication-form agnostic technology using Near-Field-Communication (NFC) tags and an accompanying smartphone application to measure medication adherence and reduce non-adherence in home-based settings. This project will advance Insightfil’s medication adherence technology toward commercialization and adoption by investigating its usability and accessibility in different contexts, including acute care, post-acute care, and outpatient settings.

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