Intermountain Healthcare is launching a drone-delivery service that it says will be able to fly drugs and home care equipment to hundreds of patients’ homes each day in Utah.
Eventually, the delivery service — operated by Intermountain and San Francisco-based Zipline — will be able to “complete hundreds of deliveries each day and be capable of delivering to approximately 90 percent of patient homes in the region,” according to a news statement Thursday by Intermountain.
Zipline anticipates reaching full delivery capacity over the course of about four years, said Caroline Cammarano, a Zipline spokesperson.
The service will initially target patients within a 50-mile radius of a distribution center in Salt Lake County, with construction set to begin early…
