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When talking about electronically monitored data we're
talking about a medication model that can actually be of a variety of sizes, and the sizes
just depend on how much medication and the size of the medication that goes in it. A
standard cap is larger than a normal medication cap, and there's a microprocessor chip in
it that records each event of medication taken by recording the time the cap is opened and
the time it's closed. Those days have been stored for up to two to three years, depending
on the number of events per day, and then the cap is loaded onto a docking station and the
data are directly downloaded to a PC. You can then look at the data, including in the
daily printout, to find ways the medications have been taken. We're seeing more use of
electronic monitoring in the exercise area and with palm pilots in the dietary arena as
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