New app delivers prescription drugs to your door
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You’ve been ordering pizzas to your door, well now it’s time you started getting your heartburn medicine delivered, too.
Zipdrug, a New York-based tech startup, launched a mobile app this week that offers on-demand delivery of prescription drugs from your local pharmacy.
To make it happen, a patient creates a profile on the app (including a photo of his or her insurance card) and enters details of the prescription and pharmacy. Patients can then specify whether they want the drugs delivered to their home or office.
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For a flat $10 fee, a bike messenger will show up with the prescription at any address in Manhattan within an hour. That’s a big relief, Zipdrug says, for ailing patients who aren’t up for the trip.
“I’ve never been to a pharmacy and felt thrilled to be there” whether sick or not, says Zipdrug founder and CEO Stu Libby, citing the long lines and Soviet-style service familiar to many New Yorkers.
The former Google exec finally got fed up when a hospital failed to give his own father the medication he was prescribed after a near-death, heart-related incident last year.
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Libby’s father recovered, but the incident was a wake-up call, he says.