A little over a year ago, as HealthBeacon steadied the ship under its new US ownership, general manager Kieran Daly was scoping out a new chapter for the business. The medtech company is best known for its smart sharps bin, a digitally connected container for people to manage and safely dispose of injectable medications. Now the business – under the umbrella of its new parent company, the home appliances maker Hamilton Beach – is expanding that product portfolio into pill medication. The rationale for a pill management product was quite clear. People take pills much more commonly than injections and,…

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