mHealth Intelligence July 17, 2020
Wake Forest Baptist Health has expanded its mHealth resources to include drone deliveries of specialty infusion medicines and PPE to distant sites in its health network.
Wake Forest Baptist Health has expanded its mHealth platform with new drone delivery services – including PPE shipments for healthcare providers working with COVID-19 patients.
The North Carolina health system is using drones to deliver PPE and specialty infusion medicines, which are patient-specific and expensive and half a short shelf-life, to distant sites in the health network.
The program is one of several around the country aiming to use drones and mobile healthcare delivery vehicles, targeting areas where access to healthcare is difficult. In California, for example, San Diego’s Rady Children’s Institute for Genomic...