Dr. Peggy Allen is a pediatric anesthesiologist and the anesthesiology sustainability program director at Akron Children’s Hospital. The hospital has reached Stage 7 on the HIMSS Electronic Medical Record Adoption Model, or EMRAM.
Part of that achievement was a successful effort to reduce gases harmful to the environment that stem from anesthesia. And the hospital’s anesthesiology team used technology to do so.
Akron Children’s Hospital posed an innovation challenge to all departments in 2021: How can the organization reduce its carbon footprint?…