About Project ECHO

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What is Project ECHO^®?

Project ECHO^® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) uses free web-based video conferencing technology to offer mentoring. Connect from your computer with a webcam and microphone, a tablet, or smart phone to gain access to based-based learning and interdisciplinary teams.

Collaborative Provider Education

• Acquire new knowledge and expands capacity
• Democratize and de-monopolize medical knowledge linking interdisciplinary specialty teams with multiple primary care clinics
• Access to Interprofessional specialists for mentoring across a virtual network

Moving Knowledge, Not Patients

• Better access for patients in rural and underserved communities
• Care at the right place, given in the right time
• Reduces treatment disparities

Making Geography Irrelevant

Download our Project ECHO flyer (pdf) (7-18). 

Registered Participant Sites (4-18)

ECHO From a Provider's Perspective

Current ECHO Series

Opioid Use Disorder ECHO Series

• Opioid Use Disorder ECHO flyer
  • The dates of this eigth-part Opioid Use Disorder ECHO are:
    • All sessions are Noon - 1:00 pm (CST)

1. 1. 1. 1. Friday, September 28
            
         2. Friday, October 5
            
         3. Friday, October 12
            
         4. Friday, October 19
         5. Friday, October 26
         6. Friday, November 2
         7. Friday, November 9
         8. Friday, November 16

No fee participation and CE available for Physicians, Nurses, and Social Workers. Pharmacy and Dental CE is pending. AMA PRA non-physician Certificate of Attendance will be available for all other participants. Opioid Use Disorder ECHO Series

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Healthy Lungs ECHO Series

• Health Lungs ECHO Flyer
  • The dates of this four-part ECHO series are:
    • All sessions are Noon - 1:00 pm (CST)
      
      
    1. Thursday, October 4
    2. Thursday, October 11
    3. Thursday, October 18
    4. Thursday, October 25

Topics include: 

• Asthma strategies for climate
• Recognizing environmental factors and the social determinants of health relating to Asthma
• Exercise Induced Bronchospasm
• Impact of vaping on our youth

CE will be available for Physicians, Nurses and Social Workers. AMA PRA non-physician Certificate of Attendance will be available for all other participants. KUMC's Respiratory Care Education department's CEU evaluator has applied for (4) hours of Respiratory Continuing Education on behalf of the Kansas Respiratory Care Society, a chapter society of the AARC.

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COMING SOON: Child Irritability ECHO Series

• Child Irritability ECHO Flyer
  • The dates of this five-part ECHO series are:
    • All sessions are Noon - 1:00 pm (CST)
      
      
    1. Wednesday, November 7
    2. Wednesday, November 14
    3. Wednesday, November 28
    4. Wednesday, December 5
    5. Wednesday, December 12

Topics include: 

• Examining irritability holistically
• Learning strategies for evaluation and treating irritability when presented as a symptom
• Recognizing the complexity of episodic and non-episodic mood changes
• Understanding irritability as a trans diagnosis symptom associated with ADHD, ASD, DMDD, Depression and Bipolar