Remote health monitoring - Would you be willing to swallow a "chip-in-a-pill" ?

Sure. Better than going through another transplant. Or worse yet, having to get one and it was a long shot I got the first one. So if it could help me keep my new organ, than I don’t see why not.

But do you take one every day or so? And it can’t check your blood levels, since it stays in the alimentary canal.

If it works and I needed it, and insurance covered it, I would use it. I am just skeptical.

I have privacy concerns since the pill chip could be read by anybody. Sadly, I feel it is the way of the future.

@zenvelo – No, from what I understand patients do not have to take one every day.

@mattbrowne wouldn’t the microchip be in each tablet of medication taken? Otherwise the digestive system would eliminate the original chip. If you read this part of the article, it sounds like the microchip is added to each pill and the info is transmitted to the patch the patient wears. “Spokesman Dr. Trevor Mundel, the company’s Global Head of Development, said Novartis does not expect full clinical trials of the “smart pills” will be needed because the microchips will be added to existing drugs, and the company intends to carry out bioequivalence tests instead to show the effects of the pills are unchanged by the addition of a tiny microchip.”

@bkcunningham – Well, I assumed that it depends how long the chip stays in the digestive system. Usually that’s more than a day, right?

I really don’t know Matt. I read this article that says the chip is in each pill. That makes sense to me. I know the technology has been around and is used in a form in pacemaker patients and insulin pump patients, as well as other. Amazing and, yet; somehow a little Orwellian.

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/c1473442-a6f4-11de-bd14-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1KjknCykO

Yes.

Also if there’s a chip they could embed in my dick so it could trigger a magnanimous erection, that will be fine.