The GlowCap® service keeps track of your scheduled medications so you don’t have to. With automated reminders, push-of-a-button refills, personalized reports and real-time updates, GlowCap® creates a full circle of care—where it matters most.
Vitality Inc. addresses the billion-dollar adherence problem for pharmaceutical brands, retail pharmacies and healthcare providers with a simple device — a cellular-connected pill cap.
About half of America is on at least one prescription medication, and most are challenged to take their pills as prescribed. Vitality helps people stay healthy and independent. GlowCap® fits popular prescription bottles available at retail pharmacies.
Inside the GlowCap® is a wireless chip that enables medication adherence monitoring. GlowCap® uses light and sound reminders to signal when it is time to take your medications. Inside the cap, a chip monitors when the pill bottle is opened and wirelessly relays alerts, through a mobile broadband network, to you or your caregiver. A push button at the base of the lid makes refills easier than ever.
Discover a new approach to medication management through reminders, social feedbacks, financial incentives and automatic refills.
Vitality completed work with researchers at Harvard Medical School and the Center for Connected Health on a study to measure the impact of GlowCap®.
Quantifying the cost-savings of high adherence
Recent research affirms that high-adherence saves care costs. For each additional dollar spent on high cholesterol medications there was $5.10 saved in care costs. And for high blood pressure medications,$3.98 saved.
Vitality Inc. offers a cost effective and scalable solution to increase adherence especially for chronic asymptomatic diseases like diabetes, high blood pressure and high cholesterol.
In Vitality’s recent beta test, participants using GlowCap© for a once a day medication or vitamin achieved 86% adherence over a 3 month period. This is substantially higher than the 50% average watermark attributed to the World Health Organizations Study .
Patient close network accountability
Vitality's solutions achieve high-adherence by engaging the close social network of the patients in the medication management.
1. Reminders Ramp from Subtle to Insistent
GlowCap© uses light and sound to signal when it is time to take a pill. GlowCap© senses when the bottle is opened and wirelessly relays its status to Vitality’s secure network. If the bottle is not opened two hours after a scheduled dose, the user is automatically reminded with a telephone call that states: “It’s time to take the pill in your green GlowCap©.”
2. Social Support
Each week, a report summarizing progress is e-mailed to the GlowCap© user. If the
user chooses, a family member, friend or caregiver may also receive the report.
3. Refill Coordination
GlowCap© can even call with refill reminders and connect the patient to their pharmacy as pills deplete.
4. Doctor Accountability
Each month GlowCap© mails you a printed report. The report may also be sent to your doctor.
Monthly printed reports mailed to the home :
