March 11, 2024 – Zipline launched its Platform 2 (P2) drone system in March 2023. It’s a next-generation plane designed to hold twice the load of its Platform 1 system. The corporate's drones have delivered entire blood, platelets, frozen plasma and cryoprecipitate, together with medical merchandise together with vaccines, infusions and customary medical provides, for eight years whereas working in seven nations.

The P2 system is perfect for dwelling supply, and a number of U.S. healthcare programs throughout the nation are benefiting from localized affected person supply of medicines and medical tools. Cleveland Clinic just lately introduced plans to make use of drones to ship sure medicines to sufferers' houses beginning in 2025 with Zipline's P2 system, which might full precision deliveries in dense city areas and ship a 10-mile supply in about 10 minutes full.

Cleveland Clinic's plan for drones, docks and charging portals

Docks for the drones and charging portals will probably be added at a number of Cleveland Clinic amenities in Northeast Ohio. After a drone is loaded with a prescription, it is going to autonomously detach, fly 300 toes to a affected person's dwelling and deploy an autonomous supply drone that may steer to the suitable location and drop off the bundle in areas as small as a patio desk or the entrance steps of a home. The drone then flies again and docks itself.

Learn extra within the newest problem of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting.