USA, NM, Albuquerque


Project ECHO: Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes

Description

Connected urban medical center disease experts with rural general practitioners and community health representatives over a telehealth network to effectively treat patients with chronic, common and complex diseases who do not have direct access to specialty health care providers.

Grant Number
UC1 HS015135
Principal Investigator(s)

New Mexico Health Information Collaborative (NMHIC)

Description

Developed a community-wide HIE collaborative in a rural area that gave patients and providers access to comprehensive clinical data on the Internet; developed disease-management prototypes on diabetes, pediatric asthma, depression, and low back pain and evaluated the development, implementation, and outcomes of the collaborative.

Grant Number
UC1 HS015447
Principal Investigator(s)