February 15, 2025

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Uber expands prescription delivery with ScriptDrop

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Uber is growing prescription delivery across 37 states in the United States with ScriptDrop. 

There are strategies for further expansion in the coming weeks and months. 

Pharmacies that are signed up with ScriptDrop include things like grocery chains, pharmacy chains and wellness devices. Uber, built-in by way of API, will turn into the default software for the select pharmacies, dependent on place and driver availability. ScriptDrop integrates with a pharmacy’s existing computer software and workflow.

Uber and ScriptDrop’s partnership also gives more earnings for delivery folks working with the Uber platform. 

WHY THIS Issues

Prescription delivery, a increasing enterprise less than the pandemic, is expanding past the general public wellness emergency.

CVS Wellness and Walgreens have invested in their prescription property-delivery enterprise. Amazon grew the enterprise a few a long time in the past with its acquisition of on the net pharmacy PillPack. 

Uber claimed delivery will help keep away from prescription abandonment. Costs of prescription orders that are not picked up skyrocketed through the pandemic. This prompted pharmacist Leslie Asanga to observed Pills2Me in Connecticut, according to the Las Vegas Critique-Journal. Most of the in no way-picked-up prescriptions had been for seniors and these at a increased chance of getting ailment from COVID-19, the report claimed.

THE Bigger Pattern

In April 2020, Uber announced more delivery possibilities past foodstuff and grocery. It adopted up in August by launching prescription delivery in select U.S. towns by way of the Uber Eats application with NimbleRx. 

ON THE History

“This previous year has shown us now a lot more than ever that pharmacies require a lot more helpful means to get people the prescriptions they require,” says Amanda Epp, CEO of ScriptDrop. “Remaining ready to incorporate ScriptDrop’s built-in interface with Uber’s know-how indicates that pharmacies of all dimensions will be greater geared up to enhance prescription adherence and provide the most susceptible of their communities.” 

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