Advancing Asthma Care

A Pediatric Health Network Initiative

Welcome to our first network-wide quality initiative!
Pediatric Health Network (PHN) is partnering with Children’s National Hospital to launch our network-wide virtual asthma quality program. PHN will help practices leverage their own data to drive improved health outcomes for their asthma population, while increasing value and patient and practice team satisfaction. We recognize that each PHN practice varies in population health approach. To meet our objectives, we’ll draw on our content experts, the experience of our member practices, and PHN coaches to provide guidance on extracting actionable data from your EMR.

Need more information? Check out our Asthma Program Document below for more details on this initiative.

*Please note: To see a list of important upcoming deadlines for initiative participants, please click here.

Asthma Program Document

Advancing Asthma Care Initiative

Global Aim

Identify and optimally manage your population of patients with persistent asthma.

Objectives of the Initiative

Identify patients with asthma and stratify the population to identify those patients who may need more help managing their condition

Develop targeted education and interventions to help all patients achieve better health outcomes

Measure the impact of interventions using quality improvement methodology

Achieve improvement on asthma control measures to provide guidance on extracting actionable data from your EMR.

Scope

This Initiative Offers Practices:

Education

Bi-Monthly educational webinars, which include:
- Didactic presentation
- Sharing best practices and practice data
CME, MOC Part 2 and MOC Part 4 credit will be available: Glasscubes link
All webinars will be recorded and available to view on this page

Data-Driven Improvements

Bi-Monthly data champion meetings
Stepwise approach to extracting and analyzing practice data
Practices choose metrics, review data and develop improvement plan

Asthma Toolbox

Click for Toolbox Materials

Toolbox materials will be added regularly and will include:
- Coding and billing tips
- In-office MDI use
- Prescribing tips
- Patient education materials
- Telehealth guidance
- Community resources

Practice Participation

Why it is Required and What is Involved

Clinical integration, by definition, requires all members to participate in data sharing and clinical quality improvement. To meet this requirement practices must actively participate and engage in the initiative by:

1. Having practice members attend live or review recording of at least 75% of the educational sessions

2. Identifying a data champion who will be responsible for retrieving practice data and submitting all requested data elements

3. Having data champions attend live or review recording of at least 75% of the data champion meetings

Upcoming Sessions

Past Presentations

All our presentations are recorded, and the supplemental handouts and guidelines are available for your reference below.

October 2021

October 26, 2021 Empowering Your Teens: Asthma Updates and Management Presenter: Eduardo Fox, MD; Shilpa Patel, MD, MPH

Empowering Your Teens: Asthma Updates and Management Presentation Slides (.pptx)

View Recording

July 2021

July 27, 2021 Future of Pediatrics 2021 Series: Navigating a World with Asthma - Parent Advisory Panel Presenter: Candice Dawes, MD, and Parent Advisory Panel This presentation was part of our Future of Pediatrics 2021 virtual series. To view recordings from the entire series please click here.