ICT&health June 12, 2024
The healthcare sector plays an important role in the climate crisis. It is responsible for 7% of the Dutch CO2 footprint and 4.6% of total CO2 emissions worldwide. Researchers from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School in Boston and Massachusetts General Hospital decided to investigate whether the use of telehealth can reduce the CO2 emissions of hospital visits.
Telehealth is digitally delivered healthcare, for example via an app patients use to stay in contact with doctors or nurses, if needed with added photos or to have a video consultation. The potential of this form of digital care to help people with transportation problems is already well documented. However, the fact that patients do not have to use a car...
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