New Israeli Tool Will Remind You to Take Your Meds

Forgetting to take your meds? A new device by the Tel Aviv-based startup, Vaica, provides audio and visual cues so patients on medication will remember to take their pills, reports The Times of Israel.

The box-shaped electronic device contains the patient’s pills and/or inhalers, gives audio and visual reminders to the patient when it is time to take medication, and has a screen for pharma company-provided instructional videos.

The product has also the ability to analyze data and to alert doctors, friends or family members if something is wrong – by text or email. The first major clinical tests of the product will be conducted in Italy and an undisclosed network of private hospitals, with patients suffering from Patients with Cardiac Heart Disease (CHD), Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD).

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