ArticleJournal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA2022
We can't mitigate what we don't monitor: using informatics to measure and improve healthcare systems' climate impact and environmental footprint.
Article in Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 12 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.
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12 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.
- Strategies and tactics to reduce the impact of healthcare on climate change: systematic review.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2024Pooled it
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- Environmental responsibility in the Israeli health system in the era of climate change: a required paradigm shift.Israel journal of health policy research · 2025Article
- A call for the informatics community to define priority practice and research areas at the intersection of climate and health: report from 2023 mini-summit.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2025Article
- Health system performance on greenhouse gas emissions, climate change and development status in 38 OECD countries.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Carbon footprint of private dental clinics in Egypt: a cross-sectional study.BMC oral health · 2025Article
- Primary healthcare's carbon footprint and sustainable strategies to mitigate its contribution: a scoping review.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Linking theory and practice to advance sustainable healthcare: the development of maturity model version 1.0.BMC health services research · 2024Article
- Climate change and cardiovascular health: Recent updates and actions for healthcare.American heart journal plus : cardiology research and practice · 2024Article
- Why digital innovation may not reduce healthcare's environmental footprint.BMJ (Clinical research ed.) · 2024Article
- Integrating environmental effects in the benefit-risk assessment of therapeutic products: a proposal and example for sustainable health and healthcare.Frontiers in drug safety and regulation · 2024Review
- What did you do to avoid the climate disaster? A call to arms for health informatics.Journal of the American Medical Informatics Association : JAMIA · 2022Article
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Abstract
Climate change, human health, and healthcare systems are inextricably linked. As the climate warms due to greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, extreme weather events, such as floods, fires, and heatwaves, will drive up demand for healthcare. Delivering healthcare also contributes to climate change, accounting for ∼5% of the global carbon emissions. To rein in healthcare's carbon footprint, clinicians and health policy makers must be able to measure the GHG contributions of healthcare systems and clinical practices. Herein, we scope potential informatics solutions to monitor the carbon footprint of healthcare systems and to support climate-change decision-making for clinicians, and healthcare policy makers. We discuss the importance of methods and tools that can link environmental, economic, and healthcare data, and outline challenges to the sustainability of monitoring efforts. A greater understanding of these connections will only be possible through further development and usage of models and tools that integrate diverse data sources.
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