Jan Lyon
Project Manager, Project ECHO
913-588-5230
jlyon@kumc.edu
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes)
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What is Project ECHO?
We work with specialists, primary health care, mental health care, public health, schools and community experts in building environments comfortable for professionals to share knowledge and experiences and learn new skills. Our goal is to improve outcomes for Kansans by increasing everyone's ability to treat and manage complex health care challenges in their own communities with the right knowledge, at the right place at the right time. |
Moving knowledge, not people.We invite you to join us! |
How Project ECHO began
Hear from Dr. Sanjeev Arora, MD founder of Project ECHO
Project ECHO's story Launched in 2003. It grew out of one doctor's vision.
Sanjeev Arora, M.D., a social innovator, and liver disease specialist at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque, was frustrated that he could serve only a fraction of the hepatitis C patients in the state. He wanted to serve as many patients with hepatitis C as possible, so he created a free, educational model and mentored community providers across New Mexico in how to treat the condition. A New England Journal of Medicine study found that hepatitis C care provided by Project ECHO trained community providers were as good as care provided by specialists at a university.
The ECHO model is not traditional "telemedicine" where the specialist assumes care of the patient, but is instead "telementoring" a guided practice model where the participating clinician retains responsibility for managing the patient.
Collaborative Education
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Moving Knowledge, Not Patients
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Principles of the TeleECHO Model
Project ECHO, Changing the World Fast
When all the principles are applied, a learning community in which "All Teach and All Learn" comes together. |
Benefits of becoming a part of the ECHO community
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Four principles of the ECHO model
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