Amazon Pharmacy leverages AI and local distribution to speed up prescription deliveries [Video]

Need for speed: Amazon Pharmacy customers in New York City and the greater Los Angeles area can now receive same-day delivery of medication to manage common conditions like diabetes and high blood pressure. The e-commerce giant is leveraging knowledge from its retail operations to enable same-day delivery. Just like with retail, a key cog to speedy delivery is to store products closer to where customers live.

A new facility in Brooklyn, for example, stocks the most commonly prescribed medications.

Pharmacists and techs at the small-format facility are said to be able to process a prescription within minutes instead of hours or days thanks in part to help from generative artificial intelligence and machine learning.

When a script is received, AI models can conduct a series of fact-checking tasks that help ensure pharmacists are getting the most accurate information. It can …