title: Partnering urban academic medical centers and rural primary care clinicians to provide complex chronic disease care.
abstract: Many of the estimated thirty-two million Americans expected to gain coverage under the Affordable Care Act are likely to have high levels of unmet need because of various chronic illnesses and to live in areas that are already underserved. In New Mexico an innovative new model of health care education and delivery known as Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) provides high-quality primary and specialty care to a comparable population. Using state-of-the-art telehealth technology and case-based learning, Project ECHO enables specialists at the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center to partner with primary care clinicians in underserved areas to deliver complex specialty care to patients with hepatitis C, asthma, diabetes, HIV/AIDS, pediatric obesity, chronic pain, substance use disorders, rheumatoid arthritis, cardiovascular conditions, and mental illness. As of March 2011, 298 Project ECHO teams across New Mexico have collaborated on more than 10,000 specialty care consultations for hepatitis C and other chronic diseases.
authors: Project ECHO, University of New Mexico School of Medicine, Albuquerque, Sanjeev Arora, USA.
authors: Sanjeev
authors: S
authors: Arora
authors: Summers
authors: S
authors: Kalishman
authors: Denise
authors: D
authors: Dion
authors: Dara
authors: D
authors: Som
authors: Karla
authors: K
authors: Thornton
authors: Arthur
authors: A
authors: Bankhurst
authors: Jeanne
authors: J
authors: Boyle
authors: Michelle
authors: M
authors: Harkins
authors: Kathleen
authors: K
authors: Moseley
authors: Glen
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authors: Murata
authors: Miriam
authors: M
authors: Komaramy
authors: Joanna
authors: J
authors: Katzman
authors: Kathleen
authors: K
authors: Colleran
authors: Paulina
authors: P
authors: Deming
authors: Sean
authors: S
authors: Yutzy
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