数据驱动的可持续性:模拟澳大利亚虚拟卫生服务的排放影响
Rachel de Sain1,2, Bettina McMahon2
1Flinders University.
Studies in health technology and informatics
|August 8, 2025
概括
虚拟健康服务减少了医疗保健.
科学领域:
- 环境健康 环境健康
- 数字健康数字健康
- 医疗保健系统 医疗保健系统
背景情况:
- 医疗保健部门是全球温室气体排放的重要贡献者 (约5%),影响人类健康和气候变化.
- 医疗保健的排放足迹,如果它是一个国家,将其列为全球第五大排放国.
- 虚拟健康服务提供了一种潜在的解决方案,可以减轻医疗保健的环境负担,同时确保服务的可访问性和公平性.
研究的目的:
- 通过使用多模式排放测量框架量化虚拟卫生服务对环境的影响.
- 评估2023-24财年由澳大利亚Healthdirect虚拟服务产生的排放节约.
- 通过突出经济,临床和环境效益来支持数字健康转型的商业案例.
主要方法:
- 应用一种新的多模式排放测量框架.
- 对2023-24财年Healthdirect澳大利亚服务数据的分析,包括964,278个电话.
- 通过使用虚拟健康服务产生的和节省的排放量量化.
主要成果:
- 虚拟健康服务,特别是Healthdirect澳大利亚的呼叫,产生了相当于1.845千二氧化碳 (kt CO2-e) 的显著排放节约.
- 相当一部分呼叫者 (56%) 选择虚拟服务,而不是打算访问临床服务.
- 大多数排放量节约都在城市服务提供区域观察到.
结论:
- 虚拟健康服务显然有助于减少医疗保健部门的碳足迹.
- 这些发现提供了强有力的证据,支持将数字健康解决方案整合到可持续的低碳医疗保健中.
- 将环境效益与经济和临床优势相结合,加强了广泛数字健康转型的理由.
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