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 Telehealth cut health care's carbon footprint and patients' costs during the pandemic


"Our study documented the many benefits of utilizing telehealth for ambulatory visits," said Sristi Sharma, a UC Davis preventive medicine physician and lead author of the study. "It is the first, large-scale study to evaluate the round-trip distance, time, and cost-saving, and greenhouse gas emissions prevented from telehealth use during the pandemic." more

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