climate change

Digital Health & Telemedicine September 15, 2023

Hospitals and Digital Health Can Save People and the Planet

By Gil Bashe – If the healthcare sector were a country, it would be the world’s fifth-largest contributor to greenhouse gases following China, the US, India, and Russia. The planet’s health and our own are joined, and the health community must unite with environmental affairs experts to collaborate on what must be done to keep the planet vibrant.

Analytics and Pop Health January 29, 2020

What Climate Change Could Mean For Medical Communities

By Kayla Matthews – Right now, medical communities around the globe continue to face both new and old challenges. These include untreatable diseases like cancer and cardiovascular disease, as well as relatively new infectious ailments like hantavirus, SARS and hepatitis C.

HCNR Feed May 24, 2016

ACP Issues Urgent Call to Action on Climate Change to Avert Major Threat to Public Health

Climate change will have devastating consequences for public and individual health unless aggressive, global action is taken now to curb greenhouse gas emissions, the American…