UC San Diego Health is launching a test program to see if it's feasible for drones to transport medical samples between buildings.
UC San Diego Health will test whether it can safely use small flying drones to quickly transport medical samples among its facilities in a project meant to reduce the time patients have to wait for blood test results and treatment.
If the experiment is successful, UC San Diego Health eventually could seek permission to use drones to transport samples, supplies and documents to its network of clinics, and possibly to its large hospital in Hillcrest. UC San Diego will initially use the drones to transport dummy payloads between Moores Cancer Center and Jacobs Medical Center. If successful, it will then test fly medical samples, supplies and records between those sites and to the Center for Advanced Laboratory Medicine, about 1.5 miles north of Jacobs.
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