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Preliminary feasibility of a wrist-worn receiver to measure medication adherence via an ingestible radiofrequency sensor
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Conference
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2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on Body Sensor Networks (BSN) Body Sensor Networks (BSN), 2023 IEEE 19th International Conference on. :1-5 Oct, 2023
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2376-8894
Abstract
Adherence to medications is a complex task that requires complex biobehavioral support. To better provide tools to assist with medication adherence, digital pills provide an option to directly measure medication taking behaviors. These systems comprise a gelatin capsule with radiofrequency emitter, a wearable Reader that collects the radio signal and a smartphone app that collects ingestion data displays it for patients and clinicians. These systems are feasible in measuring adherence in the real-world, even in stigmatized diseases like HIV treatment adherence. While the current iteration of the digital pill system utilizes a wearable Reader worn like a necklace, preliminary feedback demonstrated that a miniaturized system that was worn on the wrist could be more functional in the real-world. This paper therefore describes the development and preliminary field testing of a wrist-borne wearable Reader to facilitate acquisition of oral HIV pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) adherence data among individual prescribed PrEP.