ECHO Colorado Learning Collaboratives

As a collaborating organization, ClinicNET is pleased to provide ClinicNET affiliates with information on the statewide Extension for Community Health Outcomes in Colorado (ECHO Colorado) program. ECHO Colorado is a statewide professional education initiative aimed at connecting health workforces to topic experts to increase access to specialty care and expert knowledge across underserved and rural areas using bi-directional video-conferencing technology.

There are three ECHO series, or learning communities, started in October, with a focus on pediatric epilepsy, patient navigation, and pediatric developmental spectrum. Upcoming topics include: neurology, food safety, diabetes & endocrinology, hepatitis C, cancer survivorship, integrated addiction & psychiatry, tobacco control, obesity prevention & nutrition, child abuse prevention, and population health. Click here to view a one-page overview.

ECHO Colorado’s learning opportunities can help ClinicNET affiliate clinics:

• Enhance capacity to provide whole person health care within the context of families and communities.
• Enhance capacity to improve disease prevention outcomes.
• Increase access to specialty care, and services such as mental, oral and public health.
• Allow all providers to practice at the top of their scope.

Visit the website http://www.ECHOColorado.org to learn more about this program.  If you would like to be an expert for a topic, have a topic suggestion, or would like to participate as a learner, please contact the ECHO Colorado staff through email at ECHOColorado@ucdenver.edu. [Source: ECHO Colorado]