Discussions of package deliveries tend to focus on efficiencies within the consumer realm as experts in the field cite reduced carbon footprints, and easier, faster, and more accurate deliveries and returns of everyday items.
Missing from that discussion, until now is how the healthcare industry will benefit. "We are working with a major health care provider to pilot delivery of blood samples from the hospital to the lab," said Dronedek Founder and Chief Executive Officer Dan O'Toole in a recent press release issued by the company. "We are confident this work will do more than increase efficiencies, it will increase security throughout medical campuses while also bettering the patient experience."
Currently, hospitals around the world rely on human delivery personnel to deliver sensitive items like blood and tissue samples between hospitals, labs, and other medical facilities. This process has inherent delays as medical professionals who obtain samples that need laboratory examination have to wait for humans to transport the specimens from one facility to another. Additionally, those deliveries pose security risks as trusted delivery men and women could be impersonated by someone meaning to do harm. Also, humans often, and without meaning to, bring in germs and contamination to healthcare facilities.
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