Plenary 4: The ECHO Model
| Saturday, October 26, 2019 |
| 9:20 AM - 10:00 AM |
| Hall C & D |
Details
What if everyone could get the high-quality services they need, from local people they know and trust?
The ECHO Institute, in Albuquerque, NM, trains their partners in the ECHO Model™ to help them pursue their missions. People and organizations from all over the world are leveraging the ECHO Model to scale their own social initiatives in fields like healthcare, education, and social justice.
Using proven adult learning techniques and interactive video technology, the ECHO Model™ connects groups of community providers with specialists at centers of excellence in regular real-time collaborative sessions. The sessions, designed around case-based learning and mentorship, help local workers gain the expertise required to provide needed services. Providers gain skills and confidence; specialists learn new approaches for applying their knowledge across diverse cultural and geographical contexts. As the capacity of the local workforce increases, lives improve.
Speaker
Dr Sanjeev Arora
Founder
ECHO Institute
Democratizing knowledge to reduce disparities in healthcare - Project ECHO
9:20 AM - 9:40 AMSummary
Project ECHO® dramatically improves both capacity and access to specialty care for rural and underserved populations by linking expert inter-disciplinary specialist teams with primary care clinicians through teleECHO™ clinics, where the experts mentor primary care clinicians and share their expertise.
Biography
Sanjeev Arora, MD, MACP, FACG is the Director and Founder of Project ECHO. He is a Distinguished Professor of Medicine with tenure in the Department of Internal Medicine at University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center. Project ECHO® (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) dramatically improves both capacity and access to specialty care for rural and underserved populations by linking expert inter-disciplinary specialist teams with primary care clinicians through teleECHO™ clinics, in which the experts mentor primary care clinicians to help them manage their patient cases and share their expertise via mentoring, guidance, feedback and didactic education. This helps rural clinicians develop knowledge and self-efficacy so they can adopt research findings and deliver best practice care for complex and chronic health conditions.
Dr Dana Newcomb
Medical Director Integrated Care
Children's Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service
ECHO - The Australian Story
9:40 AM - 9:55 AMSummary
This session will describe how the ECHO model has been contextualised for Australian GPs, and outline the current ECHO landscape and opportunities for GP involvement. Dana will share her experience as both the director of Australia’s largest ECHO Hub, and well as her perspective as a GP participant.
Biography
Dana is a General Practitioner and the Medical Director of Integrated Care at Children’s Health Queensland Hospital and Health Service.
She leads the implementation of CHQ’s Integrated Care Strategy. As part of this strategy she has introduced the ECHO model to link paediatric specialists with primary care clinicians in rural and underserved areas. Her team also delivers training to other organisations wishing to replicate the ECHO model.
Dana works clinically as a GP in a secondary school situated in a low socioeconomic region of Brisbane and enjoys caring for this vulnerable cohort of young people.
She leads the implementation of CHQ’s Integrated Care Strategy. As part of this strategy she has introduced the ECHO model to link paediatric specialists with primary care clinicians in rural and underserved areas. Her team also delivers training to other organisations wishing to replicate the ECHO model.
Dana works clinically as a GP in a secondary school situated in a low socioeconomic region of Brisbane and enjoys caring for this vulnerable cohort of young people.
