Don't leave adherence to chance

Smart pill bottle

Pill Connect® is a simple to use packaging add-on to identify patient adherence during a trial or treatment

Fits to your bottle

Pill Connect® Smart Dispenser attaches to your bottle, with no impact on the primary packaging supply process

Records every pill

Patients dispense via a button with the date and time recorded into memory

Real-time data

Adherence data can be read remotely in real-time, providing monitoring of pill level dosing data without inconveniencing patients

Clinician seeing data

We want to improve the power of every participant on a trial

Non-adherence is common in clinical trials, introducing variability into the data set that could lead to extra recruitment or study failure.

Pill Connect provides a new approach to mitigate non-adherence with minimal impact on recruitment, clinical supply or participant requirements.

How does it work

Pill Connect Dispenser attaching

1. Participants attach a Pill Connect Smart Dispenser to their bottle.

Pill Connect Dispensing

2. To dispense, participants press the button to eject 1 pill. The bottle records the date and time.

Pill Connect Dispensing

3. Data from the dispenser is read via a mobile app throughout the day, sending this onto clinical platforms for real-time adherence monitoring

Pill Connect reuse

4. Dispensers can be removed and attached to new bottles at refills

Frequently Asked Questions

How is data collected from the product?

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What pills does it work with?

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What bottle thread can it attach to?

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Does the dispenser use Child Resistant features?

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What's the battery life?

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What materials come into contact with the pills

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Partners

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Aardex Group

The collaboration between Aardex and Pill Connect represents a significant advancement in reporting and impacting medication adherence within clinical trials.

Pill Connect, an innovative smart pill dispenser, has been uniquely developed to seamlessly report medication adherence among trial participants in real-time. Leveraging the integration with MEMS AS®, the partnership offers clinical teams immediate access to real-time data on participant adherence rates.

This capability enables continuous monitoring of medication consumption patterns throughout the duration of the trial, facilitating a deeper understanding of evolving medication-taking habits.

For more information visit: Aardex Group

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University of Groningen
Medicine Adherence Centre of Excellence

MAECON is an interdisciplinary team from the University of Groningen working to raise awareness of and promote adherence among professionals and patients.

The group runs adherence research with smart packaging and can provide consultancy services to MedTech and Pharma companies. The team are independent senior researchers and represent a wide range of sub-specialisms related to medication adherence.

We have conducted usability and pilot clinical trials with MAECON.

Our Team

James Burnstone

Dr James Burnstone

CEO

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Robert Smith

Robert Smith

Technical Manager

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Chris Hall

Previously of Aptar Pharma, Bespak and MWV

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Dr Ian Smith MBE

Founder of Synexus and Panthera Biopartners

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Dr Carl Barratt

Founder and CEO of Monica Healthcare a GE company

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Richard Smith

Chartered accountant, previously worked at Astra Zeneca and Advanced Medical Systems

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