Lab Specimen Delivery to Clinical Labs by Drone May Soon Become Reality

It seems to me that delivery of biologic specimens from physician offices to clinical labs would be an ideal test for drones and this seems to be happening according to the Dark Report and Dark Daily (see:UPS and WakeMed Now Use Aerial Drone for Daily Transport of Clinical Laboratory Specimens). Below are some of the details:In April,...The Dark Report ...[reported that]WakeMed Health and Hospitals...[used] a quadcopter drone to deliver patients ’ medical laboratory specimens. The drone flew roundtrip between a complex of physicians ’ offices on WakeMed’s Raleigh, N.C. campus and the central clinical laboratory.The flight was the culmination of a multi-year drone-delivery pilot program during which a team at WakeMed collaborated with the United Parcel Service (UPS), the Federal Aviation Commission (FAA), and the North Carolina Department of Transportation (NCDOT)....In April, the FAA issued an Air Carrier Certification toWing Aviation LLC, an air delivery developer and subsidiary of Alphabet.....The FAA certification restricts drone deliveries to daylight hours only with no flying in the rain. The devices are allowed to fly over people but cannot hover above them, nor can they carry any hazardous materials. The company plans to launch a trial delivery service later this year in the Blacksburg and Christiansburg areas of Southwest Virginia. Wing hopes to add other markets to its drone delivery service in the future....Prior to using drones for clinical laboratory s...
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