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Medical knowledge sharing and information exchange:virtually enabling access to specialty care

Dr Dana Newcomb Medical Director Integrated CareChildren’s Health Queensland Project ECHO Superhub

Medical knowledge sharing and information exchange:virtually enabling access to specialty care

Dr Dana Newcomb Medical Director Integrated CareChildren’s Health Queensland Project ECHO Superhub

5 Principles of Project ECHO

Use technology to leverage expertise

– one to many videoconferencing platform

Sharing of best practices

– locally relevant

Case-based learning

– iterative guided practice

Track outcomes

– provider and patient outcomes

All teach and all learn

– community of practice

The Australian ECHO experience

Hub location and launch date Focus area

Liverpool Hospital 2016 Hepatitis C

Children’s Health Queensland 2017

Behaviour and mental health

ADHD

Refugee health

Obesity

Diabetes

Congenital foot anomalies

Persistent pain

St Vincent’s Melbourne 2018 Opioid use disorder

Children’s Health Queensland 2019 Superhub – training of other organisations to implement ECHO

ECHO at Children’s Health Queensland

An enabler of integrated care

• Primary, secondary and tertiary care

• Physical and mental health

• Cross-sector integration

A means to deliver on key strategic priorities

• Improved population health outcomes

The future

• Quality improvement ECHOs

Thank you

Thank you