During a keynote address at HIMSS, Hackensack Meridian Health CEO Robert Garrett outlined four priorities that should guide healthcare organizations' AI strategies. He said that healthcare leaders need to take care to ensure their AI efforts seek to address one if not all of these.
FDA’s regulation of single-use device reprocessing effectively made the U.S. the leader in EP sustainability efforts early on. However, very little has been done to build on this early leadership.
Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.
Hospitals and hospital systems need to make clearer and more consistent demands for climate accountability from their suppliers, and they need to follow through with preferred green vendor programs and the like.
Propane can provide reassurance during this time of strain on the electric grid. It can keep hospitals and other critical facilities powered so that patients receive the care they need, and allow emergency responders to do their jobs effectively.
The healthcare sector accounts for 8.5% of the country’s greenhouse gas emissions. Health systems have a moral obligation to reduce these emissions, experts argued during HIMSS23. The panelists shared tips about climate change mitigation strategies, such as to ask all tech vendors for their carbon reduction plan and to look for savings in the energy budget.
Some actions to reduce healthcare's carbon footprint actually will save money, said Jonathan Perlin, CEO of the nonprofit national and international accrediting organization.
At the Abarca Forward conference earlier this year, George Van Antwerp, managing director at Deloitte, discussed how social determinants of health and a personalized member experience can improve medication adherence and health outcomes.
Climate change poses a huge threat to the chemical industry, as many facilities are located in low‐lying coastal areas such as the U.S. Gulf Coast, and vulnerable to damage from hurricanes and flooding. These natural disasters are becoming more common with climate change.
The healthcare industry is responsible for 4.4% of global net emissions, or over 2 gigatons of carbon dioxide (CO2). The need to address this fact is so pressing that the World Health Organization (WHO) recently put out a comprehensive set of climate guidelines for healthcare facilities across the world.
By moving decisively to address waste, emissions and social inequality, organizations can turn sustainability into a competitive advantage. Here’s how.
President Joe Biden has submitted his discretionary budget for 2022 to Congress. Among its healthcare provisions are funding requests for the CDC, mental health and social determinants of health programs. But there are some unusual requests as well, such as funding for an Office of Climate Change and Health Equity.
We will highlight Build My Health's revenue practice management tools, which could help physician practices add up to $250,000 to their practices.
The CEO of country's largest managed care organization speaks on the group's larger strategy on community health and addressing the larger social issues affecting patients.
Perry Hystad, a 33- year-old epidemiologist at Oregon State University might be new to the game in his field, specifically exploring climate change’s affect on health, but he’s making big strides thus far. This fall, Hystad was selected as one of 17 winners of an Early Independence Award by the National Institutes of Health, which […]
Seinfeld was always on the cutting edge. Festivus was a cherished (or debatable) holiday for the gang, but if the writters had only known about World Vasectomy Day back in 1996 when this season 8 episode aired, it could have been celebrated even more. Dr. Doug Stein, a Tampa-based vasectomist, co-founded World Vasectomy Day, and today marks […]
A futurist report on public health I wrote about last week had a lot of references to the likely impact of climate change, particularly hurricanes and droughts. But a new study suggests another reason why climate change, particularly global warming, should be a public health concern: kidney stones. Higher temps increase dehydration and that concentrates […]