Policy & Practice Influence
JAMIA, Oct 2022 · Health technology assessment guidance
Cited in Canadian national guidance on reducing clinical care’s environmental impact
A scoping review assessing the carbon footprint of digital health interventions, surveying available frameworks, methods and tools for evaluating environmental sustainability in digital health, was cited by the Canadian Agency for Drugs and Technologies in Health (CADTH, now CDA-AMC) in its resource on reducing the environmental impact of clinical care. CADTH is Canada’s independent body providing health care decision-makers with objective evidence for health technology decisions.
CADTH resource Read the paper (JAMIA)
REACH
Covered across health, sustainability and industry press in Australia and Asia, alongside the original Monash University release.
JAMIA, Nov 2023 · Standards adoption
Disaster hazard research leads to new SNOMED CT content
A study evaluating the representation of disaster hazards in SNOMED CT — mapping the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction’s Hazard Information Profiles against the terminology — found major gaps in coverage of climate-related concepts including ‘heatwave’ and ‘drought.’ Following a formal request from Australia’s SNOMED CT National Release Centre, SNOMED International adopted approximately 90% of the identified missing concepts into the International Edition.
SNOMED International announcement Read the paper (JAMIA)
REACH
Covered by 13 news outlets and 2 blogs internationally, including original coverage from Monash University and EurekAlert!, and a later feature in health IT trade press outlet HIStalk, plus translated coverage in French and German.
IJERPH, Mar 2023 · Federal emergency-preparedness resource
Curated as a U.S. federal resource on disaster-resilient digital health
‘Lessons Learned from Natural Disasters around Digital Health Technologies and Delivering Quality Healthcare’ mapped what is known about digital health resilience during natural disasters — covering electronic health records, telehealth, e-prescribing, mobile health, AI/ML, IoT and robotics — using case studies of what works and what doesn’t. The paper was curated as a resource by ASPR TRACIE, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ Administration for Strategic Preparedness and Response knowledge exchange, within its collection on electronic health records and downtime procedures.