Proteus Digital Health

Business model

Ingestible sensors embedded in pills that track medication adherence, paired with a wearable patch.

In brief

Developed FDA-approved "digital pills" with embedded ingestible sensors to track whether patients actually took their medication, a genuinely novel technology. Despite raising nearly half a billion dollars over almost two decades, it never found a reimbursement model that made th…

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