The Extension of Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) project is a novel educational intervention designed in New Mexico to transfer subspecialty knowledge about hepatitis C virus (HCV) to primary care providers, thereby increasing patient access to HCV care. The ECHO model has been shown to deliver educational benefits and to result in good treatment outcomes for HCV-infected individuals in th...

Project ECHO (Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes) is an evidence-based model that provides high-quality medical education for common and complex diseases through telementoring and comanagement of patients with primary care clinicians. In a one to many knowledge network, the ECHO model helps to bridge the gap between primary care clinicians and specialists by enhancing the knowledge, sk...

Within two European projects metadata interoperability is one of the central topics. While the INTERA project has as one of its goals to achieve an interoperability between two widely used metadata sets for the domain of language resources, the ECHO project created an integrated metadata domain of in total nine data providers from five different disciplines from the humanities. In both projects...

Agile methodologies are gaining popularity quickly, receiving increasing support from the software development community. Project FLUID proposes the development of models and tools that will assist the flow of information, communication, and conversation in agile project environments in order to satisfy customer needs and requirements. By providing a means to gather requirements in an informal ...

Wide access to large information collections is of great potential importance in many aspects economic, environmental, health, cultural, social, etc. of everyday life. Historical video documentaries hold by national audiovisual archives, constitute one of the most precious from a historical and cultural viewpoint and less accessible cultural information. This paper presents the ECHO (European C...

Wide access to large information collections is of great potential importance in many aspects economic, environmental, health, cultural, social, etc. of everyday life. Historical video documentaries hold by national audiovisual archives, constitute one of the most precious from a historical and cultural viewpoint and less accessible cultural information. This paper presents the ECHO (European C...