Seems to me when you go in for your required 6 month revist to the doc who does a blood test and your levels are not down, he would ask three questions: are you following your diet, are you exercising, are you taking your medication. If you respond no, that is the point where a report should be made if one is to be made at all. Having someone following me around with a satilite tracking stations to determine whether I am doing what I am supposed to do is beyond the pale IMO. What is next, wearing a bracelet with your locator so if the government wants to find you they just punch in your locator code? No, I think the present day Nazis have enough power over our lives, they don’t need any more...I am not an ant working in an ant colony responding to chemical stimuli der leader.
Thanks for the reasoned reply. Remembering that I am only advocating this for certain patients at high risk. Using the same straw man of an elderly, obese, hypertensive, COPD, Type-2 diabetic patient ... 6 months is too long. Real time tracking is technically possible but at huge cost (ie in-patient monitoring). FOR THE RIGHT HIGH-RISK patient, daily monitoring has a real value to the patient and the people covering the costs (family and insurer). It also adds peace of mind.
The technology is as simple as an RFID tag in the ‘pill’. The dreaded tracker could count the pills in the bottle on a daily basis and also have a pretty good guess that one or more was in your body.
I DO NOT like the gummint having a role in this, cuz I DO NOT TRUST them with the data, or with their intent.