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Resources by Topic: Specialty care

Care Compare
Provides information on the quality of care, cost, volume of services, and other data for Medicare-certified providers. Includes data on doctors and clinicians, hospitals, nursing homes, home health services, hospice care, inpatient rehabilitation facilities, long-term care hospitals, and dialysis facilities.
Type: Database
Sponsoring organization: Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
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Arizona - Project ECHO
Offers primary care clinicians the knowledge and support needed at the local level to manage patients with complex health conditions by increasing specialty care in underserved regions of Arizona.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organizations: Arizona Telemedicine Program, University of Arizona Health Sciences
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Alabama - Project ECHO
Offers an online telementoring program linking medical experts with healthcare providers across Alabama. Promotes interactive collaboration in case-based learning to develop specialty skills and best practices to improve patient care access, quality, and efficiency.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: University of Alabama at Birmingham School of Medicine
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North Dakota Project Echo
A virtual learning network designed to provide primary care clinicians in rural and underserved areas with the expert knowledge and continuing support they need to provide best practice care to manage patients with complex conditions.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: University of North Dakota Center for Rural Health
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University of Kansas Medical Center (KUMC) Project ECHO
Offers training for healthcare providers in Kansas through videoconferencing technology to connect virtual teams of interdisciplinary experts with healthcare providers to share best practices and apply case-based learning to improve outcomes.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: University of Kansas Medical Center
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Missouri Show-Me ECHO
Provides training using videoconferencing technology to connect interdisciplinary experts with primary care providers and other professionals in Missouri to develop their skills and improve patient care, access, quality, and efficiency. Offers free continuing education for participating sites and individuals.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organizations: Missouri Telehealth Network, University of Missouri School of Medicine
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Oregon ECHO Network - Project ECHO
An interactive educational and community-building experience that allows Oregon healthcare professionals to gain new skills and competencies through video connection for providing specialty care to patients.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: Oregon ECHO Network
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Project ECHO at Dartmouth-Hitchcock
Offers a telementoring model using video-conferencing technology to connect rural community-based primary care teams in New Hampshire and Vermont with expert providers.
Type: Tutorial/Training
Sponsoring organization: Dartmouth-Hitchcock Health
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Substance Use Management Warmline
Free, confidential teleconsultation service for clinicians, providing expert recommendations addressing substance use evaluation and management. Provides peer-to-peer consultation to support primary care providers in managing complex patients with addiction, chronic pain, and behavioral health issues.
Type: Hotline
Sponsoring organization: National Clinician Consultation Center
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VHA-ORH Rural Promising Practices
A compendium describing proven models of care currently implemented to improve access to care and specialty care for rural veterans and their families within their own communities. Provides clinical and operational information about these models for healthcare professionals serving rural veterans.
Type: Website
Sponsoring organization: Veterans Health Administration's Office of Rural Health
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