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. 2021 Aug;78(2):223-228.
doi: 10.1016/j.annemergmed.2021.03.035. Epub 2021 Apr 17.

Virtual Peer-to-Peer Learning to Enhance and Accelerate the Health System Response to COVID-19: The HHS ASPR Project ECHO COVID-19 Clinical Rounds Initiative

Richard C Hunt  1 , Bruce B Struminger  2 , John T Redd  3 , Jack Herrmann  3 , B Tilman Jolly  3 , Sanjeev Arora  2 , Amy J Armistad  2 , Amanda M Dezan  2 , Celine A Bennett  2 , Jon R Krohmer  4 , Lawrence H Brown  5
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Virtual Peer-to-Peer Learning to Enhance and Accelerate the Health System Response to COVID-19: The HHS ASPR Project ECHO COVID-19 Clinical Rounds Initiative

Richard C Hunt et al. Ann Emerg Med. 2021 Aug.

Abstract

Tasked with identifying digital health solutions to support dynamic learning health systems and their response to COVID-19, the US Department of Health and Human Services Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response partnered with the University of New Mexico's Project ECHO and more than 2 dozen other organizations and agencies to create a real-time virtual peer-to-peer clinical education opportunity: the COVID-19 Clinical Rounds Initiative. Focused on 3 "pressure points" in the COVID-19 continuum of care-(1) the out-of-hospital and/or emergency medical services setting, (2) emergency departments, and (3) inpatient critical care environments-the initiative has created a massive peer-to-peer learning network for real-time information sharing, engaging participants in all 50 US states and more than 100 countries. One hundred twenty-five learning sessions had been conducted between March 24, 2020 and February 25, 2021, delivering more than 58,000 total learner-hours of contact in the first 11 months of operation.

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Cumulative COVID-19 Clinical Rounds registered participants. A, United States. B, Worldwide.
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