A model like this would be useful in a lot of circumstances...
Arora created a free, virtual clinic to mentor community providers in how to treat hepatitis C. In Albuquerque, he assembled a multidisciplinary specialist team—including himself, a psychiatrist, a pharmacist, a nurse, and a social worker—to host weekly teleECHO clinics via videoconference for primary care providers from around the state.
Although the clinics featured brief lectures on hepatitis C management, the most important learning occurred when primary care providers presented their patients’ cases to the specialist team. During these “virtual clinical rounds,” Arora and his specialist colleagues worked with primary care providers to determine patient treatment—training them to manage a condition that previously was outside of their expertise.
After the first Hepatitis C TeleECHO Clinic launched, the wait time for hepatitis C treatment in New Mexico dropped from eight months to two weeks. More than 500,000 miles of patient treatment travel were avoided.