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DR. FULLER: 1 in 12 people has asthma in this country.
It's the most chronic prevalent illness among children.
However, that does not have to happen
if children and their health care providers
are managing and controlling their asthma.
Together with the American Lung Association, and Blue Cross
and Blue Shield, we are making this happen.
ANDERSON: Before the asthma program, my asthma was really horrible.
And I used to be in the hospital a lot.
Between the weather and school, I would miss a lot of school.
And I also used to be in the hospital frequently.
Like, every month I'll be in the hospital.
DR. FULLER: We found increasing rates of children visiting the emergency
department with unmanaged and uncontrolled asthma.
We developed a program that we take clinics
through to include their providers,
nurses, medical assistants to assist children in need,
so that their asthma can be managed and controlled
to prevent these type of concerns happening.
BATTY: We have received a lot of different equipment,
like the Niox machine, that measures inflammation.
And the kids got Asthma 101 training.
ANDERSON: I was able to learn different things
and learn how to properly take medication,
and understand what it was doing to me.
And I was able to get a good understanding
of what my asthma was and how it worked.
DR: FULLER: There is less hospitalizations.
There's less visits to the emergency department.
So overall, health care costs are decreased.
BURKE: Something that's really unique about this program
is that we can use our own company's data
to identify the areas with the greatest need.
Using this information, we can identify the health care
providers that are serving large groups of high-risk patients
with asthma.
We're able to be laser focused in our outreach
to provide training and resources to the health care
providers who need it most and will really
maximize the impact.
And what's even better is we're now able to go back to our data
and track the outcomes for these patients,
to ensure that we're really improving the quality of care
they're receiving.
BATTY: Less missed school.
Kids feeling better, being able to do better
in school, being on the right medications, not overdosing
or under dosing.
ANDERSON: It has helped me better in a lot of things I like.
Participating in sports and being
able to do cheerleading full out through practice and full out
through competitions and games.
I feel like it's been rewarding to me because I know what's
going on, how to handle myself before I end up
going to the hospital.
DR. FULLER: We're extremely excited about our collaboration
with Blue Cross and Blue Shield.
We've been able to do such great work.
We are excited about going into more clinics,
providing more trainings.
We want to help children and their asthma to be managed,
and them living normal lives.
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