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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
