FIGURE 1.

Electronic Asthma Management System (eAMS) schematic. EMR: electronic medical record; AAP: asthma action plan. The eAMS started with a touch tablet patient questionnaire used in the clinic waiting room, which collected asthma symptoms according to Canadian guideline-recommended criteria, medications and details required for AAP personalisation (patient-specific symptoms, activities, triggers and allergies). Next, these data were processed by an evidence-based computerised clinical decision support system in real-time, and guidance regarding asthma control status, corresponding medication change recommendations and an auto-populated, personalised AAP were then integrated into the clinician-facing EMR system.