Approaches to Greening Radiology

Christina Sumner; Ichiro Ikuta; Tushar Garg; Jonathan G Martin; Bahar Mansoori; Majid Chalian; Brian S Englander; Jocelyn Chertoff; Sean Woolen; Drew Caplin; Michael B Sneider; Stephane L Desouches; Tiffany L Chan; Nadja Kadom

doi:10.1016/j.acra.2022.08.013

Approaches to Greening Radiology

Acad Radiol. 2023 Mar;30(3):528-535. doi: 10.1016/j.acra.2022.08.013. Epub 2022 Sep 13.

Authors

Affiliations

¹ Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia.
² Department of Radiology & Biomedical Imaging, Yale Program for Innovation in Imaging Informatics, Department of Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT; Mayo Clinic Arizona, Phoenix, Arizona.
³ Division of Vascular and Interventional Radiology, Russell H. Morgan Department of Radiology and Radiological Science, The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland.
⁴ Department of Radiology, Duke University School of Medicine, Durham, North Carolina.
⁵ Department of Radiology, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington.
⁶ Department of Radiology, Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
⁷ Department of Radiology, Dartmouth Health and the Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Lebanon, New Hampshire.
⁸ Department of Radiology and Biomedical Imaging, UCSF, San Francisco, California.
⁹ Division of Interventional Radiology, Donald and Barbara Zucker School of Medicine at Hofstra Northwell, New Hyde Park, New York.
¹⁰ Department of Radiology & Medical Imaging, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia.
¹¹ Department of Radiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
¹² Department of Radiology, University of California, Los Angeles, California.
¹³ Department of Radiology and Imaging Sciences, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia; Department of Radiology, Children's Healthcare of Atlanta- Egleston Campus, Atlanta, Georgia. Electronic address: nkadom@emory.edu.

PMID: 36114076
DOI: 10.1016/j.acra.2022.08.013

Abstract

The health care sector is a resource-intensive industry, consuming significant amounts of water and energy, and producing a multitude of waste. Health care providers are increasingly implementing strategies to reduce energy use and waste. Little is currently known about existing sustainability strategies and how they may be supported by radiology practices. Here, we review concepts and ideas that minimize energy use and waste, and that can be supported or implemented by radiologists.

Keywords: Image Greenly; Recycle; Reuse; Sustainability; Waste.

Publication types

Review

MeSH terms

Humans
Industry*
Radiology*
Water

Substances

Water