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As sustainability shifts from the sidelines to the heart of health care, the Australian Digital Health Agency’s Chief Digital Officer sets out some sustainable advantages of digital health tools — with a supporting case study.
In the early days of modern medicine, reusable tools such as glass syringes, metal forceps and sterilised surgical kits were the backbone of hospital care. But as medical technology advanced, so did the complexity of instruments, and the challenge of cleaning them grew. By the 1960s, ‘fantastic plastic’ was king — fuelling a throwaway culture from…