This past week “Drones” have once again made a public landing of sorts with a visit to the “White House” and also made the list of items not allowed in by attendees at this year’s Super Bowl! In an article published last week in a leading national newspaper, the writer noted a comment from President Obama just after the “drone” visit at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue as “there needs to be some level of regulation of this drone technology”. Interesting analogy and why not regulate this technology? I mean regulation is good for business as it generally drives bureaucracy and not far behind a revenue source (i.e. taxes) to support this creation of oversight. Right?
This week’s blog is Part II of an earlier version I wrote some months back and believe deserves a repeat again as this emerging visibility of “drone” presence in our society and environment is here to stay. A thought to ponder upon, are “drones” just the tip of the iceberg in a new era of “air transportation” and perhaps a first glimpse of a future in how we may move material, travel or watch each other?
The use of drone technology which has revolutionized military operations and warfare is now clearly introducing itself in the civilian world. Thinking in a futuristic mind set will we see sky’s full of drone’s delivering merchandise to your door step? Amazon thinks so and most likely once the FAA and other federal agencies can be convinced this “Jetson’s” style mode of services is safe and perhaps new definition to mobile medical devices will begin to emerge. Let your imagination wander as defibrillators, pumps of all types, non-invasive BP and whatever other device you can think of cruising in for that patient care landing – WOW!!
So as you think about this futuristic “medical device drone concept” as HTM service professionals, here’s a few questions to noodle on. How would you see yourself performing scheduled medical device drone PM’s? Responding to that medical device drone service call that just came in from dispatch? Exciting stuff and again another reason why this profession is so stimulating to those that can see and be the future. Some may say I am pipe dreaming again- maybe so but please note you heard it here first, again! Kind a puts a new spin on the old saying, “I’ll take care of that service call on the fly”.
