“Having attended the CAST Pavilion at the White House Conference on Aging, I was impressed by the dazzling array of futuristic technologies on display. These included devices such as: the Health Watch which has a medicine cabinet that can be programmed to keep track of what medicine it holds and when it should be taken, with a built-on camera scans the face of the person at the cabinet and a voice can remind that it’s time to take a pill. If the wrong bottle is chosen, the voice warns of the error; and a watch and computer system developed by Intel that tracks the movement of people in their homes. If they fail to go to their pills it can broadcast to a computer to provide reminders; and also Philips Medical’s Motiva Channel, that can provide personal reminders, medication reminders, and messages over the television, to suggest healthy activities and foods and allow the user to consult with a nurse regularly from home. However, I was most impressed by two technologies on display that have already proven themselves in the present, and are not “futuristic.” ADT’s pavilion exhibited the Med-eMonitor System by InforMedix, which is a portable medication compliance device that prompts the patient to take medication and follow their doctor’s advice in caring for themselves. It also records their medication compliance information and sends reports and urgent alerts over the Internet if the patient is non-compliant, to keep the patient on track. The device has been proven to improve medication compliance to over 90% in a number of trials. I also really liked the Health Buddy product. This device educated the patient about their condition, and asked them questions to assess their health status, and reported the results over the Internet. In one study the Health Buddy reduced hospital costs by 50%. Both of these products have proven themselves already. I commend ADT for linking up with its technology partners, InforMedix and Health Buddy, which already have proven their products, not pie-in-the-sky futuristic products that may or may not work.”