Electronic Health Record (EHR) Decision Support to Improve Outpatient Asthma Care

"The asthma disease management toolkit available to all practices in the EHR will consist of four elements:~* A data entry tool for capturing asthma control data~* Standardized documentation templates to facilitate severity classification~* Order sets to facilitate ordering controller medications~* An asthma care plan that can be supplied to families"

"Three alerts and two reminders will be programmed:~* Alert providers to enter asthma severity classification if none is on file~* Alert providers to prescribe controller medications for persistent asthma if none on file~* Alert providers to complete an asthma care plan if none on file~* Remind providers to review the asthma care plan if it is already on file by providing a link to the form~* Remind providers that educational content is available on-line by providing a web link"