Wakeup call! Environmentally friendly e-health

2023-02-10

Is meeting your patients online really better for the planet than driving all over town? How can we identify and measure the environmental impacts of digital healthcare services? Presentation by Janne Pesu, group manager, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and Helinä Melkas, professor, LUT University. Assessment of environmental impacts caused by digitalization in public sector services. Policy Brief 2022:35. Prime Minister’s Office. The long project report in Finnish (abstracts in Swedish and Eng...

Is meeting your patients online really better for the planet than driving all over town?

How can we identify and measure the environmental impacts of digital healthcare services?

Presentation by Janne Pesu, group manager, Finnish Environment Institute (Syke) and Helinä Melkas, professor, LUT University.

Assessment of environmental impacts caused by digitalization in public sector services. Policy Brief 2022:35. Prime Minister’s Office.

The long project report in Finnish (abstracts in Swedish and English).

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The webinar was recorded on 10.02.2023.

Other recordings in this series can be found here.

This webinar was a collaboration with the Nordic Health and Welfare Technology Research Network.

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