Reflection of the November 30th class

During this lesson we learned about a pill called the Robot Pill. This is an experimental pill that is used to remind a patient that it is time to take their medicine. This pill contains a microchip inside of if that monitors heart rate as well as the time between medicine. When it is time for the patient to take his medicine the chip will send a message to a patch that the patient must wear on his arm. This patch will then send an SMS to the persons cell phone to remind the person to take their medicine. The advantages of this pill are that they are relatively cheap and if they succeed in reminding more people to take their medicine they could save much more money in the form of hospital bills. However an issue would be equality of access because this pills are not available all over the world. Integrity is also an issue because if the data is even altered slightly then the infromation that the patient receives could either increase or decrease the intake of pills to a dangerous level. The IT systems used are hardware: microchip, mobile phones, sensors, pills, software: monitors patient's conditions) and users:patients and doctors. These are issues with all kinds of robotic pills that are used throughout the world today.