New Mexico’s Project ECHO Telehealth Expansion To Help Rural Doctors Provide Mental Health Services

Circle Connections: New Products & Services Community health providers in New Mexico will consult weekly on complex cases with mental health experts through videoconferencing under an expansion of the successful rural telemedicine program Project ECHO, which offers training sessions to providers on topics such as asthma, dementia, high-risk pregnancy, palliative care and pain management. The VA is testing similar training for rural doctors based on the project. The University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center in Albuquerque received funding from the GE Foundation and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The program will allow eight community health centers to add . . .