Project ECHO: The CIT Knowledge Network
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is a collaborative model of medical education and care management that empowers clinicians everywhere to provide better care to more people, right where they live.
We have teamed up with Project ECHO to implement this with the Albuquerque Police Department for CIT policing. The ECHO model™ does not actually “provide” care to people. Instead, it dramatically increases access to specialty training and knowledge in rural and underserved areas by providing front-line law enforcement personnel with the knowledge and support they need to manage difficult interaction with people in crisis. It does this by engaging law enforcement in a continuous learning system and partnering them with specialist mentors at an academic medical center or hub.
As the ECHO model expands, it is helping to address some of the health care and law enforcement system’s most intractable problems, including inadequate or disparities in access to care, rising costs, systemic inefficiencies, and unequal or slow diffusion of best practices. Across the United States and globally, policymakers are recognizing the potential of ECHO to exponentially expand workforce capacity to treat more patients sooner, using existing resources. At a time when the health care system is under mounting pressure to do more without spending more, this is critical.
For more information on ECHO click here and/or watch the video below.
We have teamed up with Project ECHO to implement this with the Albuquerque Police Department for CIT policing. The ECHO model™ does not actually “provide” care to people. Instead, it dramatically increases access to specialty training and knowledge in rural and underserved areas by providing front-line law enforcement personnel with the knowledge and support they need to manage difficult interaction with people in crisis. It does this by engaging law enforcement in a continuous learning system and partnering them with specialist mentors at an academic medical center or hub.
As the ECHO model expands, it is helping to address some of the health care and law enforcement system’s most intractable problems, including inadequate or disparities in access to care, rising costs, systemic inefficiencies, and unequal or slow diffusion of best practices. Across the United States and globally, policymakers are recognizing the potential of ECHO to exponentially expand workforce capacity to treat more patients sooner, using existing resources. At a time when the health care system is under mounting pressure to do more without spending more, this is critical.
For more information on ECHO click here and/or watch the video below.
