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Digitized Respiratory Inhaler: Will Patient Data be Safe?
Michael Cawley, PharmD, discusses a recently approved digitized respiratory inhaler and explains why health care providers should consider how this new technology will track personal data.
Community Health Worker Model Linked With Improved Asthma Outcomes
“With rising medical costs, stakeholders and healthcare professionals are exploring community-based solutions to relieve the burden of chronic diseases and reduce health care spending,” researchers…
Alert Reminds Emergency Providers to Consider Asthma Controller Medication
An electronic alert prompting emergency providers at a hospital to prescribe asthma controller medication for patients with poorly controlled asthma was effective, according to a recent study.

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Community Health Worker Model Linked With Improved Asthma Outcomes
Alert Reminds Emergency Providers to Consider Asthma Controller Medication
Predicting Future Hospitalizations Among Patients With Asthma
Uncontrolled Asthma Increases Economic Burden by Billions
Starting Specific Biologics Linked With Greater Asthma Burden
Asthma Appears More Common in Opioid Dependent Patients
Asthma Adherence Pathway Improves Dulera Adherence
Novartis Asthma Pill Shows Promise in Small Trial
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Digitized Respiratory Inhaler: Will Patient Data be Safe?
Michael Cawley, PharmD, discusses a recently approved digitized respiratory inhaler and explains why health care providers should consider how this new technology will track personal data.
Managing Chronic Asthma
Asthma is a condition of hypersensitivity to common exposures associated with chronic airway inflammation, bronchial hyperreactivity with increased mucus and airway edema, obstruction, and narrowing. Barbara Yawn, MD, MSc, FAFFP, outlines latest…
Importance of Identifying, Addressing Gaps in Asthma Care
Barbara Yawn, MD, MSc, FAAFP, family physician researcher, explains how quality metrics, including the use of HEDIS measures, can help clinicians and medical directors understand how to better align decision-making in clinical practices with the…
Delivering Excellence in Value-Based Asthma Care: How Four Steps Can Improve Patient, Practice Outcomes
Barbara Yawn, MD, MSc, FAAFP, family physician researcher, explains how four steps allow primary care clinicians to work together with asthma patients in order to achieve better outcomes and move towards closing the current gap that exists in asthma…
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