EXCERPT: “A study released in December of 2024 has found that drones not only can provide rural residents with access to healthcare resources, but that rural people are eager to embrace the new technology. Researcher Ellen Hahn, associate director of AppalTRuST in the University of Kentucky College of Nursing, was on the research team for the study that looked at drone delivery of healthcare resources to Appalachian patients that was recently published in Health Promotion Practice. Although the study was limited, she said, it showed that the concept could work. ‘We found that it was safe to use drones,’ Hahn said. ‘Some of the research around drones and healthcare delivery says that people are kind of hesitant or skeptical, and we wondered what will a group of clients think? Well, they were very interested. They embraced it. Plus, the materials that we delivered to them by drone were things they didn’t have access to.'” FULL STORY: https://fluence-media.co/4d3XvXy
