Search Tag: Environmental Impact
2025 10 Nov
Environmental sustainability is an increasingly visible challenge in intensive care, where resource-intensive care processes intersect with rising expectations for greener practice. Evidence from a multi-centre survey across nine French hospitals offers a detailed view of how intensive care unit (ICU) healthcare workers (HCWs) approach this agenda,...Read more
2025 10 Nov
Environmental sustainability is an increasingly visible challenge in intensive care, where resource-intensive care processes intersect with rising expectations for greener practice. Evidence from a multi-centre survey across nine French hospitals offers a detailed view of how intensive care unit (ICU) healthcare workers (HCWs) approach this agenda,...Read more
2025 03 Nov
Healthcare’s environmental impact attracts closer attention, and imaging services are part of that picture. While conversations often focus on energy-hungry scanners such as MRI and CT, everyday x-ray services also carry a footprint that is easy to overlook. An assessment of radiography and fluoroscopy at a large academic medical centre examines...Read more
2025 03 Nov
Healthcare’s environmental impact attracts closer attention, and imaging services are part of that picture. While conversations often focus on energy-hungry scanners such as MRI and CT, everyday x-ray services also carry a footprint that is easy to overlook. An assessment of radiography and fluoroscopy at a large academic medical centre examines...Read more
2025 03 Nov
Healthcare’s environmental impact attracts closer attention, and imaging services are part of that picture. While conversations often focus on energy-hungry scanners such as MRI and CT, everyday x-ray services also carry a footprint that is easy to overlook. An assessment of radiography and fluoroscopy at a large academic medical centre examines...Read more
2025 30 Oct
Editorial Summary by the HealthManagement.org Team The OECD Global Corporate Sustainability Report 2025 (GCSR 2025) offers a comprehensive overview of how the world’s corporations are managing sustainability—and where they continue to fall short. While its findings span all industries, they hold critical lessons for healthcare leaders, policymakers,...Read more
2025 30 Oct
Editorial Summary by the HealthManagement.org Team The OECD Global Corporate Sustainability Report 2025 (GCSR 2025) offers a comprehensive overview of how the world’s corporations are managing sustainability—and where they continue to fall short. While its findings span all industries, they hold critical lessons for healthcare leaders, policymakers,...Read more
2025 30 Oct
Editorial Summary by the HealthManagement.org Team The OECD Global Corporate Sustainability Report 2025 (GCSR 2025) offers a comprehensive overview of how the world’s corporations are managing sustainability—and where they continue to fall short. While its findings span all industries, they hold critical lessons for healthcare leaders, policymakers,...Read more
2025 24 Oct
Health systems are under pressure to reduce their environmental footprint, prompting interest in how sustainability can be integrated into clinical counselling without eroding patient experience. Evidence on patient responses remains mixed and may depend on clinical context. A randomised, experimental vignette study investigated whether advising...Read more
2025 23 Oct
Medical imaging is among the most energy-intensive areas in healthcare, yet operational practices and procurement decisions often overlook their wider environmental footprint. A life cycle assessment (LCA) of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) at a 800-bed academic medical centre in the US quantified greenhouse gas (GHG)...Read more
2025 23 Oct
Medical imaging is among the most energy-intensive areas in healthcare, yet operational practices and procurement decisions often overlook their wider environmental footprint. A life cycle assessment (LCA) of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) at a 800-bed academic medical centre in the US quantified greenhouse gas (GHG)...Read more
2025 23 Oct
Medical imaging is among the most energy-intensive areas in healthcare, yet operational practices and procurement decisions often overlook their wider environmental footprint. A life cycle assessment (LCA) of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) and computed tomography (CT) at a 800-bed academic medical centre in the US quantified greenhouse gas (GHG)...Read more
2025 26 Sep
Healthcare is becoming a significant force in addressing environmental challenges, with hospitals reporting clear progress on sustainability. Fresh benchmark data points to measurable environmental gains across healthcare, alongside stronger governance and clearer targets. Nearly 493 reporting hospitals contributed to the latest Environmental...Read more
2025 01 Jul
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being promoted as a tool to improve global health outcomes and tackle systemic inequities in care delivery. However, the same technologies are contributing significantly to climate change due to their massive consumption of water, energy and natural resources. Despite these impacts, the environmental costs...Read more
2025 01 Jul
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being promoted as a tool to improve global health outcomes and tackle systemic inequities in care delivery. However, the same technologies are contributing significantly to climate change due to their massive consumption of water, energy and natural resources. Despite these impacts, the environmental costs...Read more
2025 10 Mar
Radiology, a crucial component of modern healthcare, significantly contributes to the environmental burden through energy consumption, medical waste and reliance on non-renewable resources. As global healthcare systems acknowledge the urgent need for sustainability, radiological societies have united to advocate for impactful and measurable actions....Read more
2024 23 Jul
The climate crisis strictly relates to global warming and the growing effects on people's health and environmental conditions. The evidence of the vulnerability of the European and especially the Mediterranean areas increases the need for more impacting actions. The EU project that involves 112 cities committed to reaching net zero impact by...Read more
2024 28 Feb
With industry companies publicizing their efforts to decrease the energy consumption of devices and unveiling AI solutions for power management, sustainability was one of the main keywords of the ECR (European Congress of Radiology) congress in Vienna. In a session chaired by Jose Guilherme Couto (Malta) and Philipp Brantner (Switzerland), lecturers...Read more
2024 28 Feb
With industry companies publicizing their efforts to decrease the energy consumption of devices and unveiling AI solutions for power management, sustainability was one of the main keywords of the ECR (European Congress of Radiology) congress in Vienna. In a session chaired by Jose Guilherme Couto (Malta) and Philipp Brantner (Switzerland), lecturers...Read more