Healthcare provider Michigan Medicine says it plans to more than double the number of prescriptions its in-house pharmacy fills each year by using the new quick drone delivery system Zipline revealed last month.

Michigan Medicine, which is part of the University of Michigan’s large medical school, says it is working with Zipline to prepare the start of prescription drone deliveries next year. The group said the operation will serve hundreds of thousands of patients around Ann Arbor’s Washtenaw County, and allow it to more than double the volume of prescriptions its internal pharmacies fill each year by using UAVs capable of making 10-mile flights in just 10 minutes.

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Michigan Medicine’s existing prescription facilities will integrate the automated drone delivery system Zipline unveiled March 15, as will a new specialty care prescription center set to…

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Source: dronedj.com