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Within the field of digital health, digital medicine is a category of pharmaceuticals which combines a prescription medication with an ingestible sensor component. Digital medicines are designed to communicate to mobile and/or web-based applications that a patient has taken a specific dose of medication at a certain time. Because of the ingestible sensor component and association with prescription pharmaceuticals, products in this category require regulatory oversight and clinical validation.Digital medicine aim to improve pharmaceutical therapy by improving patient adherence.
A broader definition of digital medicine is a field that is concerned with the use of technologies for measurement and intervention in the context of human health.