Zipline, the drone delivery and logistics company, announced this week its new partnership with Mayo Clinic’s hospital-at-home program that’s 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.
WHY IT MATTERS
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.
They are going to start the service in Texas and Minnesota…
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.