Two companies that make electronic drug inhalers are bringing together their proprietary technologies to build a smart dry powder device that can track patient compliance with a drug regiment. MicroDose of Monmouth Junction, New Jersey already builds a dry powder inhaler with an on-board chip that can record usage. The company now wants to integrate specialty software from New Zealand’s Nexus6 to bring data from the inhaler to patients and their physicians, as well as to help with monitoring patient’s compliance with taking clinical trial meds.
Here’s a video about the Nexus6′s Smartinhaler from New Zealand’s TV4: