Project ECHO
The ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) model™ is a medical education and care management collaborative that empowers clinicians in remote settings to deliver better care to more people locally. By putting local clinicians together with specialist teams at larger medical centers in weekly virtual clinics or teleECHO™ clinics, Project ECHO:
- shares knowledge
- expands treatment capacity
- offers peer support to otherwise regionally isolated clinicians.
Project teleECHO™ Clinics
Montana Obstetrics & Maternal Support (MOMS)
Participation in MOMS TeleECHO clinics is free. Clinics occur the 2nd and 4th Tuesday of each month from 12:00 pm – 1:30 pm MST over Zoom.
MOMS Project ECHO clinics provide specialty perinatal medical and behavioral health education and training to primary care providers across Montana and to help build their capacity to provide high quality care for perinatal and postpartum patients, thereby increasing access to maternal healthcare in rural Montana. We have collaborated with providers across the state who represent various sectors of maternal health including maternal fetal medicine specialists, OB-GYNs, psychiatric specialists, pharmacists, nurses, midwives and social workers. This panel of experts — our “hub” — will consult on the various topics and cases presented during MOMS TeleECHO clinics and provide real-time recommendations on managing complex maternal health cases/conditions.
Integrated Addictions and Psychiatry (IAP)
The Integrated Addictions and Psychiatry (IAP) teleECHO™ Clinics, hosted by Billings Clinic, take place the 1st and 3rd Wednesdays of every month from 12:00pm - 1:30pm.
*1st Wednesday of each month: Integrated Behavioral Health
*3rd Wednesday of each month: Addictions
The IAP ECHO clinical team
- Board-certified psychiatrist
- Expert psychiatrist
- Expert psychotherapist
- Psychiatric pharmacist
IAP teleECHO™ Clinic are funded by Montana Medicaid, the Montana Mental Health Trust, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Montana, and PacificSource.
We will seek input from participating primary care clinics in designing the curriculum for IAP ECHO. Here are some likely topics to be covered:
- Suicide risk assessment
- Unipolar and bipolar depression
- Anxiety disorders
- Child and adolescent psychiatric disorders
- Basic and advanced psychopharmacology
