Community Health/Outreach Worker Tool

For Health care professionals: CRCE courses, kiosk setup for patient education, patient instruction handouts and smartphone apps.

For Asthma and COPD patients - training videos, real time practice with the onscreen instructor, recording and sharing their techniques with physicians for further review and recommendation

The New England Asthma Innovations Collaborative (NEAIC) is a Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation-funded Healthcare Innovation Award.  NEAIC is a multi-state, multi-sector partnership that includes health care providers, payers, and policy makers aimed at creating an innovative Asthma Marketplace in New England that will increase the supply and demand for high-quality, cost-effective health care services delivered to Medicaid children with severe asthma.  Convened by the Asthma Regional Council of New England (a program of Health Resources in Action), NEAIC's 8 provider partners will see over 1400 children over 3 years.  The Suggested Supplies list was designed to guide NEAIC provider sites that were new to asthma home visiting and to standardize required supplies across the 8 sites.

The Association of Clinicians for the Underserved  Comprehensive Asthma Resource List has everything you need to create an an asthma care home for your patients. In one location, you can find resources including clinical guidelines, patient education and self-management materials, policy briefs, asthma reports, clinical toolkits, mobile technology and asthma information, and smoking cessation and tobacco materials.

Many of the resources are available in both English and Spanish, and some in other languages, including Chinese. Also included are a variety of multimedia tools such as videos and interactive web sites. There are even links to asthma-related training courses where continuing education credits are available.