The rapid advancement of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML) is fundamentally reshaping the data center landscape. Sectors including healthcare, finance, manufacturing, and transportation are beginning to leverage sophisticated predictive algorithms, and as AI models continue to mature and organizations strive to process growing datasets, data centers must rapidly scale to support increasingly complex workflows.

Owensboro Health Regional Hospital has earned its fifth Energy Star certification, with officials saying OH has saved more than $4.5 million over the last decade due to energy efficiency practices. According to a release from OH, participating healthcare facilities strive to obtain the Energy Star recognition threshold of 75 or higher. Owensboro Health Regional Hospital scored 77, meaning its Energy Use Index (EUI) is better than 77% of hospitals in the country. Only two other hospitals in Kentucky have been Energy Star recipients longer than Owensboro Health.

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.