[telemedicine] Grant Will Aid Asthma Care Providers' Communication

[Medical Informatics News]

With many patients suffering from asthma shuffling between care facilities, officials at the
Yale School of Medicine hope a new project will improve communication
between health care providers. From the Yale Daily News:


The University and a group of community partners have received a $1.2 million, three-year grant from the Electronic
Records to Improve Care for Children with Asthma Project. According to Department of Pediatrics chair Dr. Margaret
Hostetter, ERICCA will dramatically improve asthma care in the New Haven area.

The grant, awarded by the United States Agency for Healthcare Quality and
Research, will implement an electronic health-record system linking asthma care providers all over the city to a
common database.

”This type of electronic medical-care system will improve care by instantaneously linking the emergency room, the
school nurse’s office, the pediatrician’s office and the community clinic,” Hostetter said. Furthermore, specific
clinical advice based on national guidelines will be provided to subgroups of clinicians to support their
decision-making, according to Dr. Richard Shiffman, the grant’s principal investigator and professor of pediatrics and
anesthesiology at the Yale School of Medicine.

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