Wake Forest Baptist is working with a tech company to provide drone delivery service. | Stock Photo
Wake Forest Baptist is working with a tech company to provide drone delivery service. | Stock Photo
A drone delivery service is now operating in full capacity to drop off medical supplies and urgent personal protective equipment (PPE) to Wake Forest Baptist Health, Winston Salem reported.
Wake Forest Baptist's healthtech business company, ran via the Innovation Quarter, iQ Healthtech Labs, released the drone service that UPS and UPS Flight Forward will execute, Winston Salem reported on July 14.
“Increasing efficiency of our supply chain routes helps provide better service to our patients and their families,” Conrad Emmerich, chief supply chain officer at Wake Forest Baptist Health, told Winston Salem. “Partnering with UPS Flight Forward through our iQ Healthtech Labs opens new doors for us to do just that through drone delivery.”
UPS vice president of Advanced Technology Group, Bala Ganesh, also seemed optimistic about the upcoming possibilities.
“UPS Flight Forward has proven through its pioneering work on other health care campuses that drone delivery can be faster than delivery by ground vehicles, which may be less direct or vulnerable to street traffic,” Ganesh told Winston Salem.
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