U.S. Air Force Telehealth Initiative to Assist Primary Care Providers in the Management of Diabetes.

More than 50,000 active-duty U.S. Air Force (USAF) service members, retirees, and family members with diabetes receive care at more than 50 military treatment facilities (MTFs) throughout the continental United States.1 Although many of these patients are referred to civilian network diabetes specialists because of a scarcity of military endocrinologists, most are managed by USAF primary care providers (PCPs). In an effort to assist PCPs in managing complex diabetes cases, a team from the USAF Diabetes Center of Excellence (DCOE) in San Antonio, Tex., adopted the Extension for Community Healthcare Outcomes (ECHO) model of care.