{"id":97678,"date":"2019-10-21T16:02:36","date_gmt":"2019-10-21T23:02:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/ups-strikes-agreements-to-use-drones-to-deliver-medical-supplies"},"modified":"2019-10-21T16:02:36","modified_gmt":"2019-10-21T23:02:36","slug":"ups-strikes-agreements-to-use-drones-to-deliver-medical-supplies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/10\/ups-strikes-agreements-to-use-drones-to-deliver-medical-supplies","title":{"rendered":"UPS Strikes Agreements to Use Drones to Deliver Medical Supplies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ups-strikes-agreements-to-use-drones-to-deliver-medical-supplies.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>United Parcel Service Inc. is striking a series of drone-delivery agreements with health-care groups as it develops new technology pitched to the growing medical market.<\/p>\n<p>The plans include expanding the use of drones to deliver cargo such as medical samples and supplies on hospital campuses in Utah and elsewhere, and an agreement with <a href=\"https:\/\/quotes.wsj.com\/CVS\">CVS Health<\/a> Corp. to evaluate the use of drones for home delivery of prescriptions and other products, UPS said Monday.<\/p>\n<p>The agreements are the first UPS has announced since the package delivery giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/ups-gets-faa-nod-for-widespread-drone-deliveries-11569939601?mod=article_inline\" class=\"\" >won U.S. regulatory approval<\/a> to operate commercial drone flights through the company\u2019s Flight Forward subsidiary. The nod from the Federal Aviation Administration paves the way for UPS to scale up operations as it competes with <a href=\"https:\/\/quotes.wsj.com\/FDX\">FedEx<\/a> Corp., <a href=\"http:\/\/Amazon.com\">Amazon.com<\/a> Inc. and others vying to develop drone delivery services in the U.S.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>United Parcel Service Inc. is striking a series of drone-delivery agreements with health-care groups as it develops new technology pitched to the growing medical market. The plans include expanding the use of drones to deliver cargo such as medical samples and supplies on hospital campuses in Utah and elsewhere, and an agreement with CVS Health [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1488,15,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-drones","category-habitats","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97678\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}