Asthma is the most common chronic disease in K-12 schools, impacting Black youth at twice the prevalence of the general population, and is the primary reason for school absence among elementary age students, leading to inequality in educational and health outcomes. Care coordination across medical and educational settings is a key barrier to disease management for asthmatic youth. Human centered-design and biomedical informatics are ideal tools to develop and implement an intervention to improve care coordination and educational outcomes for Black youth with asthma. In this study, Harris aims to develop a technology-enabled platform to support a communication, capacity building, and care coordination intervention (C3) that combines school and health system information in an integrated dashboard; develop implementation strategies to support family and school health provider use of C3; and assess the usability and feasibility of C3. Harris will use community-based participatory research and accelerated creation-to-sustainment models to iteratively co-develop the technology platform. Adam Wilcox, Professor of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis will provide mentorship in the development and pilot testing of technology-enabled services. Tamara Perry, Professor of Pediatrics at the Arkansas Children’s Hospital Research Institute, will provide mentorship in developing pediatric asthma interventions with schools.
Can a technology-enabled platform that coordinates care across medical and educational settings improve health and academic outcomes for Black youth with asthma?
