The ECHO Effect
Project ECHO
Project ECHO’s revolutionary model provides training and mentorship to transform and sustain strong systems.
"The ECHO movement will continue to grow only if we continue to invest in it." Dr. Caroline Kisia, ECHO Africa Director ?
Leadership Message
Dear Friends,?
I recently celebrated my first year with Project ECHO as the Africa director, and what a year it has been! I’ve spent these last 12+ months meeting with ECHO partners throughout Africa, hearing their success stories and goals. I’ve connected with ministries of health around the continent, learning about their most urgent health priorities, and I've had the pleasure to connect with my ECHO colleagues around the world.
While I still have much to learn, I’d like to share a few insights I’ve had about Project ECHO:?
The ECHO Model is needed more now than ever before.?
Whether it’s building workforce capacity to prepare for the next pandemic or to address the treatable chronic illnesses that are cutting so many lives short in Africa and around the world, the need for a fast, low-cost and proven solution to get health care expertise anywhere it is needed is only growing. And as funding becomes scarcer, that need becomes ever more urgent.?
In Africa, ECHO has become more important than ever as resources and expertise become constrained in the midst of a changing global health landscape. I believe the ECHO Model can help health care leaders across Africa make the use of limited resources and build bridges as we must lean on each other to respond to the most urgent health issues facing the continent.??
ECHO is the best way to increase access to training for hard-to-reach frontline health care workers.??
The ECHO Model turns traditional training on its head. It’s the difference between flooding your garden once a year and carefully watering it every week – low intensity, high frequency and high reach. This approach – centered around ongoing mentorship – builds deep implementation expertise over time. I’ve seen these benefits firsthand.??
I want to thank all of you who are making ECHO’s work in Africa so impactful, and I can’t wait to see many of you in person at the MetaECHO conference in September.
Dr. Caroline Kisia
Director of ECHO Africa
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Research Highlight
The University of Missouri’s Show-Me ECHO used Missouri Medicaid claims data to evaluate the impact of its Pain?Management ECHO program. When compared with?non-ECHO providers, ECHO-participating providers?significantly reduced their average opioid dose?prescribed by 33%, significantly reduced the average daily supply of opioids among their patients by 3%, and their patients saw a significant reduction by 14% in the likelihood of being prescribed unsafe opioid doses. ?
Results?
Primary care providers trained and mentored through the Pain Management ECHO had a greater rate of safe prescribing of opioid medications than their non-ECHO trained counterparts.
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Your ECHO Effect
The financial support extended to Project ECHO yields a multitude of benefits for patients, providers, communities, and governments. This support enables the expansion of our global training program, the establishment of new ECHO partnerships, the development and enhancement of iECHO, and the amplification of our impact to reach more communities and forge new collaborations on a global scale.
The opportunities for creating widespread, enduring change through Project ECHO are truly endless.
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