4sight Health March 9, 2022
A friend of mine recently asked me whether I knew anything about ESG in healthcare. I told her I did but was too busy at the moment to share what I knew and that I would email her later. Then, like the poser I am, I quickly searched online to find out what ESG in healthcare is because I had absolutely no clue.
I learned that ESG stands for “environmental, social and governance,” and it’s a formula to evaluate the sustainability of a company in light of climate change, growing societal concerns and demands for more fair and equitable corporate management structures. Investors who care about those issues use ESG to pick the companies (or countries) in which they’ll...