NEWS

Staff Recognition Awardees & Nominee
June 2009

Project ECHO Team

“Polycom visual communication solutions have provided a way to extend our knowledge to healthcare providers in an efficient and cost-effective way.”

Dr. Sanjeev Arora, Founder of Project ECHO, Professor of Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Science Center (PDF).  Web news release article (PDF) and web article titled: 'Speaking With Polycom's Dr. Deb Jeffries on ARRA, Telemedicine' (PDF).

KOB Channel 4
March 2008

TV Interview with
Dr. Arora & Dr. Sava

Department of Health

Innovative project wins first place in international competition

Project ECHO, an innovative program of the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and New Mexico's Health and Corrections departments, won first place in international competition designed to identify programs that change the way medicine is practiced.  The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation chose the New Mexico project out of 307 entrants from 27 countries. (PDF)

The UNM Health Sciences Center Project ECHO recently came in first in an international competition to identify programs that are changing the paradigm of how medicine is practiced. (PDF)

Project ECHO, a Hepatitis C program developed by the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and the state's Health and Corrections departments, won first place in an international competition designed to identify programs that change the way medicine is practiced. (PDF)

For the last several years, the New Mexico Department of health, the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center and several private providers across the stat have used technology to provide better access to health care.  The innovative way new Mexico removes barriers to health care was selected first place in an international competition for Disruptive Innovation in Health & Healthcare sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (PDF)