{"id":65674,"date":"2016-04-05T17:04:23","date_gmt":"2016-04-05T21:04:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/?p=65674"},"modified":"2020-09-21T13:34:04","modified_gmt":"2020-09-21T17:34:04","slug":"google-drones-could-one-day-deliver-medical-help-04-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/google-drones-could-one-day-deliver-medical-help-04-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Google drones could one day deliver medical help"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65677 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Drone-for-medical-purposes-Patent.jpg\" alt=\"Google Drone for medical purposes - Patent\" width=\"601\" height=\"451\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Drone-for-medical-purposes-Patent.jpg 601w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Drone-for-medical-purposes-Patent-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Drone-for-medical-purposes-Patent-600x450.jpg 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 601px) 100vw, 601px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 601px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 601\/451;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Google was recently awarded a patent for a new drone system that could help the company revolutionize the emergency medical industry.<\/p>\n<p>The patent, first spotted by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/qz.com\/655314\/google-wants-to-call-drones-to-medical-emergencies-at-the-push-of-a-button\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Quartz&#8217;s Mike Murphy<\/a>,\u00a0outlines a system where drones would bring medical aid to people in distress.<\/p>\n<p>For example, someone in need uses a nearby Google drone box and inputs that someone is having\u00a0a heart attack or is suffering from anaphylactic shock. The drone is then summoned to that location by the portable box.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-65676 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Drone-Box.png\" alt=\"Google Drone Box\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" data-srcset=\"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Drone-Box.png 800w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Drone-Box-300x225.png 300w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Drone-Box-768x576.png 768w, https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/04\/Google-Drone-Box-600x450.png 600w\" data-sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 800px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 800\/600;\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The drone would read where the portable box is located using WiFi, a cellular connection, or a standard telephone connection.<\/p>\n<p>The drone would then fly autonomously to deliver the appropriate supplies, like an epipen.<\/p>\n<p>Google&#8217;s patent also explains that the drone could possibly be flown by someone, depending on the type of situation.<\/p>\n<p>Once it arrives, the drone could provide step-by-step instructions on how to use the medical supplies provided by watching a quick tutorial video.<\/p>\n<p>Google may even create floatplane drones so they can land on water and other surfaces as needed.<\/p>\n<p>Once the drone is on its way, a medical support request would be sent to the nearest dispatcher to ensure an ambulance is also on the way.<\/p>\n<p>The goal here isn&#8217;t to provide an alternative to traditional medical support services, but rather to offer faster immediate needs care until a paramedic can arrive on the scene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google was recently awarded a patent for a new drone system that could help the company revolutionize the emergency medical industry. The patent, first spotted by\u00a0Quartz&#8217;s Mike Murphy,\u00a0outlines a system where drones would bring medical aid to people in distress. For example, someone in need uses a nearby Google drone box and inputs that someone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":45,"featured_media":65677,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7372],"tags":[7552,168,10636,9663,10637,10638],"class_list":{"0":"post-65674","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-drones","9":"tag-google","10":"tag-google-drones","11":"tag-medical","12":"tag-medical-drones","13":"tag-medical-help"},"acf":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/45"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65674"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":77673,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65674\/revisions\/77673"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65677"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businesspundit.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}