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Consumers are depending on mHealth applications and wearable devices to improve their medication abidance. A survey conducted for the Express Script on 800 prescription medication user, founds that half of them trust mHealth technology to help them to become steady and one-third stated that they would like to use mHealth applications or devices if it were installed for them.  Experts say half of all medication users are not consuming their drugs as prescribed, costing $300 billion a year in avoiding healthcare expense. Medication adherence is the biggest issue healthcare experts have aimed to solve more assertively. Nearly half of those surveyed said, consuming their prescribed drug is the most important part of their health regimen, a percentage higher than those selecting a routine check-up (30 percent). 56 percent said reminders would help them to improve medication stability and 19 percent said, this kind of nudge would definitely help them. That’s where mHealth come...

Health-Check-Up Through Sweat Monitoring Wearable Device  171 Wearable Medical Device  Cincinnati-based startup Eccrine System has developed a health  wearable   medical device products called Sweatronics which tracks your health using sweat. Other bodily fluids like urine and blood contain plenty of the body information’s but are not as easy to collect. However, Sweatronics needs only sweat samples that is produces automatically while working or even sleeping. The device is to be worn around the wrist, which consists of a sweat collection unit, sensor, and electronics that make contact with skin and uses electrochemical aptamer technology which helps DNA binding to select biomarkers to scale the target of choice, the data can be sent via wireless connection to a smartphone. This device was first introduced to the US air force as a project program. A recent study showed that individuals could be differentiated from one another due to the unique me...