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Transporting Medical Samples by Drone

Flying Medical Courier

Orange County, CA - April 5th, 2019 -  UPS, the worldwide delivery and shipping company announced its collaboration with the with Matternet, who is a leader in autonomous Drone technology late last week. The two companies received the approval from the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make daily deliveries between two buildings of the Wakemed hospital system in Raleigh, North Carolina.

“This is a turning point, and it’s an historic moment because this is the first FAA-sanctioned use of a (drone) for routine revenue-generating flights,” Bala Ganesh, vice president of UPS’ advanced technology group, said in an interview before the announcement.

The daily deliveries between the two buildings are assisting WakeMed to become more efficient from their laboratory. Flying the samples instead of sending them by ground, allows clinicians to deliver the specimens to analyze at a much faster rate.

Some current ground mobile couriers deliver patient blood samples to and from the hospital laboratories. However, the time and traffic that comes with the ground courier make the procedure slower than ideal.

The WakeMed schedule will begin by sending patients’ Medical samples one-third of a mile from a medical park to the main hospital building for lab testing at least six times a day five days a week. The specimens are put in a box and carried to a drone launching pad, where they secured and fastened to the aircraft. “This is going to bring tremendous benefit to health care. Health care is one of these domains of commercial activity where being fast really matters,” said Ganesh.

If everything goes as planned, the program will expand to additional buildings within WakeMed that are miles away.

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