
PLUGS Podcast
The PLUGS Podcast aims to empower healthcare providers, clinical laboratories, insurance plans, and patients by enhancing lab stewardship. Laboratory stewardship has five key improvement goals: 1) enhanced access to testing, 2) appropriate and accurate test ordering, 3) timely retrieval of test results, 4) correct result interpretation, and 5) financial alignment between patients, labs and payers. Financial alignment means that patients are protected from financial toxicity, labs are paid fairly, and insurance companies do not pay for wasteful test practices.
Through insightful discussions, expert guidance, and valuable resources, the PLUGS Podcast is dedicated to supporting all stakeholders in navigating the complexities of clinical lab stewardship, ultimately promoting both better patient outcomes and financial security.
PLUGS Podcast
Navigating the Lab Data Marketplace: Opportunities, Logistics, Risks, Rewards
Using every academic trick in the book, including the invocation of “my mother medicine” and an analogy to flying cars, Drs. Mike Astion and Geoff Baird interview Bridget Wegner, Director of Partnerships at Clarivate about the commercialization of lab data. Bridget, a seasoned lab and IT professional, emphasizes the importance of lab data in advancing drug development and making drugs more available to patients with rare diseases. The conversation covers the benefits, and risks of selling lab data; privacy and security concerns; and the practicalities of engaging with Clarivate.
Follow this link for Clarivate Real-World Data Offerings
https://clarivate.com/life-sciences-healthcare/real-world-data/#offerings
(choose Real-World Data Rare Disease Franchise to contact an expert)
PLUGS Website:
https://www.schplugs.org/
MTS Website
https://medtraining.org/