Category Archives: Telemedicine

Project ECHO – Pain Management

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Pat Wildes

Over 116 million Americans suffer from chronic pain and over 50% of those will seek care from a primary care provider. Considering the frequency and severity of chronic pain in our population, we at the Community Health Center, Inc. are … Continue reading →

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Psychiatric Telemedicine for Uninsured Patients without Stable Housing

Posted on April 4, 2012 by Aldon Hynes

How would I cope with being down on my luck, without a good job, a nice house to come home to in the evening, and so many other parts of daily life we so often take for granted?  I imagine … Continue reading →

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CHC Project ECHO Kickoff

Posted on January 23, 2012 by Aldon Hynes

Amidst all the fanfare about CHC kicking off Project ECHO® in Connecticut and the discussions about innovative use of telemedicine to improve health outcomes, it could be easy to lose focus on what truly matters, the patient. Yet CHC is … Continue reading →

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Project ECHO at CHC

Posted on January 19, 2012 by Aldon Hynes

The following is a guest post from Dr. Marwan Haddad MD, MPH, Medical Director of HIV, HCV, and Buprenorphine Services at Community Health Center, Inc. This Friday January 20th is the launch of the very cutting edge, state of the … Continue reading →

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Today is World AIDS Day 2011

Posted on December 1, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

The following is an email from Dr. Marwan Haddad to our CHC staff helping in the day to day battle against AIDS: We are now three decades into the HIV epidemic. Though we have made great strides in these last 30 … Continue reading →

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Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of the Project Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (Project ECHO).

Posted on November 23, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

Conversations focuses this week on an innovative model of care that’s linking primary care providers with specialists in rural and underserved areas of the country. Mark Masselli and Margaret Flinter speak with Dr. Sanjeev Arora, founder of Project ECHO®, about … Continue reading →

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Better Health Outcomes Through Telemedicine

Posted on October 11, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

One of the challenges of being a health care blogger is taking the language of grant proposals and peer reviewed journal articles and translating it into something that the average person can understand.  A recent meeting I attended illustrates this … Continue reading →

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Project Echo, Google+, Patient Education, and a Patient Centered Medical Home.

Posted on September 29, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

What happens when you ask a social media manager for a Patient Centered Medical Home to write about Project Echo®?  You just might get a strange collection of thoughts drawn into a single blog post.  Ready? Last month, I sat … Continue reading →

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Project ECHO

Posted on August 18, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

It was like a cross between House and a video version of Car Talk for doctors with patients infected with Hepatitis C.  Instead of breaking into people’s apartments to find some hidden environmental  cause of a difficult to diagnose illness, … Continue reading →

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Viewing CHC Through the Lens of a Diabetic Retinopathy Camera

Posted on March 2, 2011 by Aldon Hynes

There is an old saying that if you’ve seen one community health center, you’ve seen one community health center.  It reflects the great diversity of health centers across the country, but perhaps does not do justice to our sites.  One … Continue reading →

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