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    FDA Approves First Digital Pill That Can Track If You've Taken It

    Abilify MyCite is a tablet with an embedded sensor activated by fluid in the stomach. Although the drug's approval is a big step for digital medicine, there are concerns about privacy and cost.
    by Laurel Wamsley Nov 14, 2017 3 minutes
    The FDA has approved the first drug with "a digital ingestion tracking system." Abilify MyCite is an antipsychotic with an ingestible sensor that transmits data to a patch, which then sends the information to a smartphone app.

    The Food and Drug Administration has approved its first digital drug: a pill embedded with a sensor that transmits whether someone has taken it.

    Although the approval is a big step for digital medicine, there are concerns about privacy, convenience and cost.

    The tablet and embedded sensor is called Abilify MyCite. Abilify, made by Japan-based Otsuka Pharmaceutical, is the brand-name version of , an antipsychotic drug used for treating schizophrenia, bipolar disorder and as an

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