Travel Distance Between Participants in US Telemedicine Sessions With Estimates of Emissions Savings: Observational Study
Published in Journal of Medical Internet Research, 2024
A large-scale retrospective analysis of US telemedicine sessions shows that telemedicine reduces median travel by 49 miles and saves over 1.4 million metric tons of CO2 annually, hence shrinking health care’s carbon footprint. Read more
Telemedicine use in the U.S. is influenced more by rurality than social vulnerability, with differing patterns of use across rural and urban counties.