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Best Practices for a Data-driven Approach to Test
Utilization Management
LIVE WEBINAR
TUES., AUG. 30 | 10 AM PT | 1 PM ET
Would you like to learn how data-driven interventions can improve laboratory
test utilization in your organization? Would you like to hear about the impact that leading hospitals/health systems and managed care organizations have made through these interventions?
If so,
join
utilization management expert Dr. Michael Astion, Medical Director at the
Department of Laboratories at Seattle Children’s Hospital and Clinical Professor
of Laboratory Medicine at the University of Washington, for a live webinar Aug. 30.
In this 30-minute presentation, Dr. Astion will discuss the current state of the
misuse of laboratory testing in the United States and some of the interventions
that are being implemented to improve it. He will cover a number of common areas
of unnecessary testing — from pure abuse to tests that could be useful but are
ordered inappropriately.
You’ll learn about:
- Two
areas of laboratory testing where misordering of tests occur frequently
- Three
interventions to improve the value of testing for patients
- The role
of genetic counselors and other laboratory professionals in improving lab
test ordering
- The
national endeavor known as PLUGS, the Pediatric Laboratory Utilization
Guidance Service
Live Q&A will follow.
Register Now
Your
presenter:
Michael Astion, MD, PhD
Medical Director, Department of Laboratories, Seattle Children’s Hospital
Clinical Professor of Laboratory Medicine, University of Washington |
