STAT November 22, 2022
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Can virtual care ease the climate crisis?
Hospitals eager to stem their impact on the environment are pointing to telehealth as a key strategy — but data on the effects of digital health on the climate crisis are slim, my colleague Katie Palmer reports. “Digital health is late to the party,” Enrico Coiera, a digital health researcher at Macquarie University, tells Katie. “It’s very early days in terms of what the evidence says.”
At least one study suggests that virtual appointments could reduce carbon emissions by saving...
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