Decision-makers may believe it’s prohibitively difficult to improve energy efficiency in health care, especially since many facilities never close. Here are some strategies to show it’s easier than they think.

A global healthcare company has seen a 36% reduction in energy costs in Sligo, Ireland in the last decade.

Siemens Healthcare is developing a solar power solution, which would support the medical imaging equipments including MRI, CT, ultrasound scanning and X-ray systems. The company said this would largely help the centres located at the rural parts of the country, where power shortage is high.

Siemens Healthcare đang phát triển một giải pháp điện mặt trời có thể cung cấp điện năng cho các thiết bị ảnh y tế bao gồm MRI, CT, hệ thống X quang và quét bằng sóng siêu âm. Siemens cho biết công nghệ này sẽ giúp ích lớn các trung tâm y tế ở nông thông, nơi mà tình trạng thiếu điện vẫn còn ở mức cao.

While disposal of sharps (used needles and syringes) at hospitals and other large healthcare facilities is highly regulated, medical waste disposal by the ten million people who self-inject at home for diabetes and other conditions is largely unregulated. The health risks and resulting economic costs of improper sharps disposal are immense, from needles and syringes washing up on beaches and possibly creating needlesticks, to needlestick injuries that can expose sanitation and other workers to infection risk.