Providers are turning to technology to ensure patients are taking their medications as prescribed.

Modern Healthcare: The directions are usually pretty basic: Take 1 tablet once a day with water.

Simple, right?

For eons, providers, payers and pharmacists have resorted to good old-fashioned trust and assumed that the patient was following those simple instructions.

After all, it's hard to keep a constant eye on patients when they are at home. But trust alone doesn't always translate to a patient taking the medication, or taking it correctly.

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