Overview
Project ECHO®— short for Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes — is a telementoring project that targets increased workforce capacity to provide best practice specialty care and reduce health disparities. The heart of the ECHO model is its hub-and-spoke knowledge-sharing networks to conduct virtual clinics with community providers.
Goals and Objectives
Through this initiative, the University of Washington (link) aims to strengthen delivery of diabetes care in ordered to reduce health disparities and improve population health in underserved communities with diabetes. Project ECHO will improve health outcomes and increase access to quality diabetes care for people with Type 2 diabetes in the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area and also Washington state region