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by is licensed under Zipline, the drone delivery and logistics company, announced this week its new partnership with Mayo Clinic's hospital-at-home program, designed to deliver medications and other home-based care needs. Texas-based Memorial Hermann Health System will also work with the autonomous delivery and logistics company to integrate drone-based transport for specialty prescriptions and medical supplies directly to patient homes in the Houston area beginning in 2026, the health system said. Drone delivery of prescriptions may help hasten the goals of healthcare systems and providers that seek to meet patients where they are.

While 65% of patients who need transportation assistance to improve their medication use may benefit from drone prescription delivery options, it could also help streamline healthcare for all patients, according to Zipline. If someone is diagnosed with an infection during a telehealth appointment, for example, their doctor could send an antibiotic prescription to a pharmacist who quickly loads it into one of Zipline's drones, called Zips, and spare them from going out to a brick and mortar pharmacy when they're sick and contagious, the company explained in a posted this week. Zipline also said it will integrate its soon-to-launch drone platform, called Platform 2, into Mayo Clinic’s campuses in Jacksonville, Florida and Rochester, Minnesota, to serve patients enrolled in Advanced Care at Home program.



It plans to launch the service in the Dallas.

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