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Techland gadget critic Doug Aamoth gets a look at Vitality's new prescription pill bottle cap with a built-in wireless chip that reminds you to take your medicine at a certain time every day._ --- Jul 27, 2023 2:25 PM UTC --- ## More From This Series [All Videos](https://time.com/video/) [The First Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Is Here](/video/EHkTXkr7/) ### The First Over-the-Counter Birth Control Pill Is Here [Election 2020: What Voters Do \(and Don’t\) Need to Worry About](/video/n5H3s06X/) ### Election 2020: What Voters Do (and Don’t) Need to Worry About [Woman Tricked Into Taking Abortion Pill, Man Pleads Guilty](/video/tnGCMQGB/) ### Woman Tricked Into Taking Abortion Pill, Man Pleads Guilty --- ## Transcript >> We've really simplified the connected health experience. Inside each GlowCap are a couple of things. One is a little wireless chip that communicates when it's opened, and the battery level to the night light every single time it's opened. When you get the device at home, all you do is you find an-- find a free outlet, usually in a kitchen or bathroom, you plug it in, it makes that cute little arpeggio noise to sort of prime you so that you know what sound that's gonna make. And then, whatever time you're supposed to take a medication, this politely starts pulsing with lights. This pulses orange, and that pulses orange with it. And it does that for an hour. And then, after another hour, it starts making these cute little arpeggios-- do- todo- todo- todo-- to get your attention. And if you still haven't opened the package after a couple of hours, it will text your cell phone or call your home phone. Another feature that we've patented about the system is on the inside of each cap is a " Push to Refill" button. And if you press that, it makes that cute little sound. And then, makes a dialing noise. And then, usually about 30 seconds later, your phone rings. >> Greetings from Vitality. You just pressed the " Push to Refill" button on your [ unk ] GlowCap. To refill this medication or speak with the pharmacist, press 1. >> Once you have a Glow Cap, you can set it up to remind you at different times of day, and this-- and also to send you an e- mail report or printed report. Here's a sample report that we'll send you every week. You can choose to send this not only to yourself, but also to a loved one. And then, if you choose, you can have a doctor also receive that same reports. And that, for many people, is total-- is very motivational. We've done everything possible in order to make this solution super affordable. In fact, it's free. If you're given this by your pharmacist, the individual pays nothing. The pharmacy or the pharmaceutical company pay us between $ 10 and $ 20 a month. We have a relationship right now with Express Scripts, which is a pharmacy benefit manager. So, they-- they're the second largest PBN in the country. For 140 different medications, they're just issuing the Glow-- issuing or mailing you the meds in the GlowCap. And I think that's the best way to get it into many people's hands. We're actually with both CVS and Walgreens. We don't-- we don't have a system-- we don't have a-- we don't-- we're not stocking the GlowCaps at the pharmacy, at those pharmacies yet. I would say the non- optimal way that we're working with those companies right now is through a coupon. So, essentially, you get your script filled, there's a coupon that's printed out at the point of distribution that's stapled to the med that says " This script comes with a free GlowCap ." But what you have to do in order to get the Glow Cap is you have to either call an 1800 number or go to a website, and then we will ship you one directly. So, that's not-- that's not perfect. You know, that's not the-- getting a Glow Cap into the hands of millions of people. But we still have to work through the IT issues with the big pharmacies in order to, you know, roll these out of 18, 000 pharmacies around the country. >> What about privacy issues? Is all the data you get anonymous, or can you see the-- >> It's all encrypted. Everything's encrypted. I mean, basically, there's an encryption layer from here to here. There's a private network that we have at AT & T that encrypts the data from here to the-- up to-- up to the servers. And all the data's anonymized. I mean, it's incredibly important, actually, for our partners that they never see any of the data. A pharma company can't legally see any of the data about people's behavior. We can aggregate data, and we can say people who are in this age range, in this state, tend to not do as well as this other state. But all of the data is scrubbed before we can-- before we can share them. 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