About this Live Webinar

Improving Asthma Outcomes: Measures and Care Models

Asthma affects nearly 24 million people in the U.S., yet despite well-established best practices, it remains a leading cause of emergency department visits, hospital stays, and missed work and school. In 2022, over 42% of people with asthma experienced an exacerbation—nearly 68% of young children.

These are not just numbers; they represent lives disrupted and care gaps that must be addressed.

This live webinar continues the conversation introduced in NCQA’s 2024 whitepaper, Improving Outcomes for People with Asthma: Challenges & A Call to Action. Join leading experts as they explore practical strategies for improving asthma management through evidence-based care models, individualized treatment plans, patient education, and expanded access to a broader care team—including nurses, pharmacists and community health workers. You’ll gain insight into new care delivery approaches and how social determinants of health can be addressed to support better outcomes.

What You Will Learn

At the conclusion of this program, participants will be able to:

• Recognize the human and economic toll of asthma across populations.
• Learn to recognize asthma accurately in vulnerable groups.
• Discuss treatment strategies tailored to individual patient needs.
• Determine when to refer to a specialist.
• Identify evidence-based clinical and non-clinical asthma interventions.
• Describe the patient perspective on managing asthma daily.
• Discover ways to use telemedicine to extend access and support continuity of care.

Who Should Attend

• Healthcare professional
• Healthcare decision maker
• Consultant
• Health plans
• Health systems
• Hospital
• MBHO
• Population health organization
• Wellness organization leverages in federal, state, employer

Faculty

Caroline Blaum, MD (Moderator)
AVP, Chronic Conditions

NCQA

Njira Lugogo, MD
Professor of Internal Medicine

University of Michigan Health

Tonya Winders, MBA
President & CEO

Global Allergy & Airways Patient Platform

Wendy Wright, DNP, ANP-BC
Adult/Family Nurse Practitioner

Wright & Associates Family Healthcare

Continuing Education

This live course grants 2.0 Continuing Education Unit (CEU) points for PCMH Certified Content Experts.  

This is a non AMA PRA Category 1 Credit™, ANA CNE activity.

* Please note – You must attend the entire program to be eligible for total number of contact hours.

DISCLOSURE OF RELEVANT FINANCIAL RELATIONSHIPS

The National Committee for Quality Assurance (NCQA) endorses the Standards of the Accreditation Council for Continuing Medical Education which specify that sponsors of continuing medical education activities and presenters at and planners for these activities disclose any relevant financial relationships either party might have with commercial companies whose products or services are discussed in educational presentations.

For sponsors, relevant financial relationships include large research grants, institutional agreements for joint initiatives, substantial gifts, or other relationships that benefit the institution.  For presenters or planning committee members, relevant financial relationships include the receipt of research grants from a commercial company, consultancies, honoraria, travel, or other benefits, or having a self-managed equity interest in a company; or having an immediate family member or partner with such a relationship.

Disclosure of a relationship is not intended to suggest or condone bias in any presentation but is made to provide participants with information that might be of potential importance to their evaluation of a presentation.

Relevant financial relationships exist with the following companies/organizations:

Faculty:

Caroline Blaum
Njira Lugogo
Tonya Winders
Wendy Wright

Additional Planning Committee Members:

Yuzu Saito Butler

Daniel Roman

Megan Traynor

Jenna MacPherson

Erin Oganesian

Crissy Crittenden

This program was developed in part by NCQA staff.

This webinar is presented with support from AstraZeneca Pharmaceuticals, LP.