Patients can benefit from ECHO sessions as follows:
- Get high quality care close to home from healthcare providers they know and trust
- No need to wait months to access care
- Eliminate the need for travel back and forth to hospitals and clinics (especially important in rural and remote communities)
- Reduce the cost of accessing specialist medical care
- Less travel = less wasted money
- Less travel = less impact on family and work life
- Opportunity for continuity of care within their medical home
- Fewer visits to specialists saves co-pay and insurance fees
