Discovery Channel Documentary Highlights Project ECHO

For some years now, health care innovators have been using emerging health information technologies to transform everyday clinical care. But Pioneer grantee Project ECHO applies these technologies in an entirely new and revolutionary way:  to spread medical knowledge throughout the health care workforce, and, in the process, form collaborative practices, build new professional skill sets and exponentially expand the capacity of the entire health care system.

Project leader Sanjeev Arora, MD, of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, developed the ECHO model to break down medical “knowledge monopolies” so that doctors, nurses and other clinicians can deliver better care to more people who need it, right in their communities. Project ECHO uses video communications technology to create real-time virtual networks for sharing the best medical practices and knowledge between specialists at a university medical center and local primary care teams. 

A new Discovery Channel documentary, Health I.T.: Advancing Care, Empowering Patients, features ECHO amongst a handful of innovative efforts using technology to transform patient care. The segment tells the story of a primary care physician living in rural New Mexico who uses technology in a new way to address her patient’s condition. View the program online or watch it on the Discovery Channel this Saturday, November 26, at 8:00 a.m. ET.

For more information on Project ECHO:

• Read a research evaluation published in the New England Journal of Medicine
• View our Facebook infographic

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For some years now, health care innovators have been using emerging health information technologies to transform everyday clinical care. But Pioneer grantee Project ECHO applies these technologies in an entirely new and revolutionary way: to spread medical knowledge throughout the health care workforce, and, in the process, form collaborative practices, build new professional skill sets and exponentially expand the capacity of the entire health care system.

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But Pioneer grantee Project ECHO applies these technologies in an entirely new and revolutionary way: to spread medical knowledge throughout the health care workforce, and, in the process, form collaborative practices, build new professional skill sets and exponentially expand the capacity of the entire health care system.