Here’s an unusual way of thinking about telemedicine: as a potential antidote to climate change.
That’s the ambition behind a new task force launched by the American Telemedicine Association (ATA) to look at telemedicine’s impact on climate change, both throughout the sector and within ATA. The task force will look for ways to encourage healthcare practices that lead to “green” outcomes and will develop guidelines and tools for members to reduce their own carbon footprints by reducing travel.
ATA volunteers will pursue two projects under the initiative: designing an “energy-efficient small medical practice of the future” and developing a virtual urgent-care system.
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