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Supporting primary healthcare providers to manage complex patient presentations by sharing knowledge, disseminating best practices, supporting integrated care and building communities of practice.
Project ECHO : Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes
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ECHO is a virtual peer-group learning model for primary health care providers, including general practitioners, nurses, allied health professionals and community health workers.
Through didactic presentation and case-based discussion, the ECHO program aims to build communities of practice to support primary healthcare providers gain knowledge and confidence to manage patients with complex conditions in their own local communities.
2023 ECHO programs
Palliative Care ECHO
February - May 2023
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Advanced Dementia ECHO
February - June 2023
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Emergency Medicine ECHO
July - November 2023
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Past ECHO programs
AOD ECHO | Sept - Dec 2021
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Neurology ECHO | Feb - May 2022
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Cardiology ECHO | June - August 2022
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Chronic Pain ECHO | July - November 2022
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COPD ECHO | July - December 2022
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Luminal Gastroenterology ECHO | September - December 2022
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Not heard of Project ECHO® before?
Project ECHO® was originally developed in 2003 by the University of New Mexico School of Medicine, USA, to build the capacity of primary care providers and to increase access to specialist-level care in rural and underserved populations.
The ECHO model has since spread to 180 countries and delivered over 3,700 ECHO Programs worldwide.
SAPMEA is the first ECHO Hub established in South Australia to deliver the ECHO model to our local healthcare community.
Learn more about the global Project ECHO® movement on the ECHO Institute website.
