Project ECHO (Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes)

Project ECHO links expert inter-professional teams at an academic hub with primary care providers in local communities. Primary care providers, the spokes in our model, become part of a learning and support community, where they receive mentoring and feedback from the team of experts. Working together, community providers get the help and the support they need to provide care to their patients as close to home as possible.

The ECHO Act is officially U.S. law!

The ECHO Act is officially U.S. law! President Obama signed the measure after it had been previously approved unanimously in the U.S. Senate and House of Representatives.

Why Sharing May Be The Fastest Way To Transform Rural Health Care

n good news for rural health care in the U.S., President Obama signed the Expanding Capacity for Health Outcomes (ECHO) Act into law last month after it passed unanimously in the Senate.

HOW IT WORKS

Providers join ECHO programs through the website.
Once completed, Health care Providers join ECHO
sessions via video conference on a regular basis.

Healthcare providers register for ECHO Programs at no cost. Providers join ECHO sessions via videoconferencing on a regularly scheduled basis.
ECHO sessions include didactic from subject experts and cased based learning. Participants become part of a supportive community of practice connecting providers and an inter-professional team at an academic / hospital setting.
Participants are encouraged to present de-identified patient cases to the community, participate in discussions, and evaluation surveys. They also receive no cost CPD credits.
Overall, disparities in communities are reduced and health of populations increase as patients receive best practice care from their local healthcare providers.
Through the ECHO Model, community providers and specialists learn from each other, acquire knowledge, skills, increase competency and build a strong community of practice.

ECHO PROGRAMS ACROSS ONTARIO

➤ Mental Health & Addictions at CAMH

➤ Chronic Pain/Opioids at UHN-Queens

➤ Rheumatology at UHN

➤ Hepatitis C at UHN

➤ Child & Youth Mental Health at CHEO

➤ Pediatric Care at SKH

➤ Chronic Pain/Opioids at SJCG/TOH

➤ Epilepsy at SKH

➤ Care of the Elderly at Baycrest

➤ Autism at Holland Bloorview Kids Rehab