The hospital trust I work for has recently announced plans to widely implement AI ambient voice technology (AVT). Many of us have concerns from a clinical, educational and data governance perspective,…
A recent paper (Jia et al. European Radiology (2026) 36:2186–2197, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00330-025-12023-z) looks at the emissions caused by medical imaging data storage. Although data storage is…
Here are a couple of useful resources for benchmarking carbon emissions. The Lancet has recently published Lancet MedZero which promises to be a very useful website. Its focus is not currently…
Update: Thank you so very much to everyone who got in touch and expressed an interest in being part of this study - we are now fully booked!**************We still have a few slots for interviews for…
Last year a consortium led by J R of the Masaryk University in Czechia with 4 other partner organisations including ECRIN, University College Cork, the University of Nicosia and Universidade Nova de…
Two recent papers — one inLancet Oncology (Bryant et al., 2024) and one inLancet Planetary Health (Malmberg et al., 2024) — have looked at the environmental impact of how we prescribe checkpoint…
I received some communication (see below post) from a company that sells sustainable baby wipes (I have no conflict of interest with the company).Just wondering if there have been pieces of work…
PPE – we use it a lot in our imaging departments, both for radiation protection and infection control. Much of it is single use, and although its carbon footprint may not be as large as other aspects…
We are looking for participants in a research interview about nature and wellbeing at work!We are conducting a pilot research study to better understand how encounters with nature in healthcare…