CEO SUMMARY: For two years, clinical lab professionals at WakeMed Health and Hospitals have tested the use of aerial drones to transport patient specimens from a physicians’ office satellite lab/draw station to the WakeMed Medical Center’s central lab. Late last month, they completed the first successful revenue-generating commercial transport of lab supplies by drone in […]
WakeMed Uses Drone to Deliver Patient Specimens
In a first for clinical labs, North Carolina system uses a quadcopter to deliver patients’ samples
- By Joseph Burns
- > From the Volume XXVI No. 5 - April 8, 2019 Issue
