Bringing Health Care to Rural Kentucky
June 18, 2012 | Story
RWJF Investigator and journalist Michael Millenson's landmark book on quality, and his subsequent crusade, helped radicalize a new generation.
Underserved Populations
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Project ECHO
January 30, 2013 | Grantee
A force multiplier: Spreading medical knowledge, expanding health care capacity.
South Dakota Creates Regional Coordinated Care Networks to Improve Health Care
March 1, 2000 | Program Result Report
The South Dakota Department of Health addressed the decline in the number of its rural practice sites by creating four Regional Coordinated Care Networks to promote primary care linkages in underserved areas.
Physician Communication Performance among Standardized Patients and Patients with Limited Health Literacy
May 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Limited health literacy is associated with misunderstandings about cancer susceptibility and benefits of early detection and low adherence to cancer screening.
Keeping Pace with the Knowledge Explosion
August 9, 2012 | Pioneering Ideas Blog Post
Sanjeev Arora discusses how Project ECHO provides platform for continuous, lifelong learning.
Ensuring Equal Access to Specialty Care
June 1, 2011 | Commentary
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a disruptive model of health education and delivery, makes the medical resources of academic medical centers available to treat and improve outcomes for rural HCV patients.
Outcomes of Treatment for Hepatitis C Virus Infection by Primary Care Providers
June 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes), a disruptive model of health education and delivery, makes the medical resources of academic medical centers available to treat and improve outcomes for rural HCV patients.
Partnering Urban Academic Medical Centers and Rural Primary Care Clinicians to Provide Complex Chronic Disease Care
May 19, 2011 | Journal Article
Project ECHO enables specialists to partner with primary care clinicians in underserved areas to deliver complex specialty care to patients.
Project ECHO
June 14, 2011 | Story
This disruptive model of health care education and delivery enables primary care doctors in underserved areas to provide top-quality care for complex conditions locally.
Metropolitan Fragmentation and Health
March 1, 2012 | Journal Article
This article explores the relationship between metropolitan fragmentation, and racial disparities in mortality among Backs and Whites in the 1990s.