Project ECHO (Extension for Community Health Outcomes) uses technology to leverage scarce resources, reduces disparities in care by demonopolizing knowledge, provides case-based learning to enhance mastery of complex information and increase impact, and uses web-based databases to monitor outcomes.
IU Indianapolis ECHO Center
Description of the video:
Project ECHO is a performance optimizer. Think of it as a high speed internet connection for the healthcare system. It spreads new medical knowledge throughout the healthcare system from university medical centers and other specialty sites to the front lines of community care. Rather than information flowing in one direction, community providers learn from specialists, they learn from each other, and specialists learn from community providers as new best practices emerge. Under ECHO, community providers use video technology to participate in guided practice with specialist mentors.
They acquire new skills that allow them to treat patients that they otherwise would have referred out. Patients with complex chronic conditions get high quality care where they live from providers they know. No waiting months to see a specialist. No long drives back and forth to get critical care. ECHO exponentially increases access to specialty care by moving knowledge instead of moving patients. Suffering and pain are reduced, and lives are improved and even saved. Project ECHO - changing the world fast.
This is a cost-free partnership between local primary care providers and the IU Richard M. Fairbanks School of Public Health to improve access to high-quality treatment for common, complex, and chronic diseases in Indiana. With support from interdisciplinary teams of medical specialists based in Indianapolis, the IU Indianapolis ECHO Center uses technology to facilitate mentoring and knowledge sharing, enabling clinicians to provide best-practice care locally.
25ECHO Programs to Date
1,223+Organizations Represented
8,481+Participants to Date
89Indiana Counties Joining
46 + D.C.States Represented
7Countries Represented
Benefits of Participating
- Free continuing medical education (CME) credits
- The opportunity to present your complex cases and receive feedback from IU specialists and your peers
- Improve your skills and practice at the top of your license
- Retain patients in their medical home
- Open access to all ECHO references and resources
Land Acknowledgment
The IU Indianapolis ECHO Center acknowledges our location on the traditional and ancestral territory of the Miami, Potawatomi, and Shawnee people. We honor the heritage of Native peoples, what they teach us about the stewardship of the earth, and their continuing efforts today to protect the planet. Founded in 1969, IU Indianapolis stands on the historic homelands of Native peoples and, more recently, that of a vibrant Black community, also displaced. As the present stewards of the land, we honor them all as we live, work, and study at IU Indianapolis.Learn more about the Land Acknowledgment at IU Indianapolis
*Participants to date, Indiana counties joining, states represented and countries represented are based on iECHO registration data, Nursing Home COVID-19 Action Network (NHCAN) ECHO participants, and Indiana Peer Education Program (INPEP) ECHO. The number of organizations represented is based on the organization locations our participants join from/represent through their employment with said organization per iECHO registration data.