John F. “Fred” Thomas, PhD, will present “Transforming Care for the 21st Century and Measuring Outcomes According to the Quadruple Aim” on Monday, October 7, 12:00 – 1:00 PM at Education 2 North, Room 1206 on the Anschutz Medical Campus.

Over the past decade, the cost of medical care has continued to increase dramatically without corresponding increases in health outcomes. ECHO Colorado is an Anschutz campus innovation that fosters the testing of different aspects of the healthcare spectrum, aiming to improve the health of Colorado.

John F. “Fred” Thomas, PhD, is a healthcare/health policy educator, system designer and entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in public health advocacy, eHealth innovation and model development. He is currently the director of ECHO Colorado as well as the director of Telehealth Services for Children’s Hospital Colorado. He has academic appointments in the Departments of Psychiatry, Pediatrics and Family Medicine in the Colorado School of Medicine and the Department of Epidemiology at the Colorado School of Public Health.

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An ECHO Colorado staff team attended the 2019 Public Health in the Rockies conference August 27-30 at the Keystone Conference Center in Keystone, Colo. This year’s conference, Equity and Social Justice: Innovation at Elevation, was an opportunity for education, networking and skill development for professionals in Colorado and neighboring regions. The conference was designed to build a more competent public health workforce.

ECHO Colorado staff attended a variety of sessions that presented research and policy initiatives relating to past, current and future learning series. Topics included adolescent sexual health in Colorado, children and youth with special needs, MAT training in rural areas, and innovations in behavioral health care.

Networking was an important and enjoyable aspect of the conference. ECHO Colorado staff were able to connect (and reconnect) with ECHO partners including CDPHE and the CDPHE Oral Health Unit, and staff from the IT MATTRs program.

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