Unlocking the Potential of the Laboratory through Clinical Decision Support

Presented By:
Todd Wharton, RN - Clinical Solutions Specialist, Abbott Laboratories

Speaker Biography:
Todd Wharton is a Healthcare Consulting and Process Improvement thought leader with over a decade of clinical, operational, and informatics experience rooted in critical care. He is an innovative change agent to inspire and invigorate teams to accomplish quantitative and qualitative performance improvement and care management initiatives in the value based reimbursement shift. Todd leverages his critical care and clinical research background to help establish consistent outcomes among the highest risk populations.

Co-Presented By:
Katherine Metz, BSN, MBA, RN - Clinical Solutions Specialist, Abbott Laboratories

Speaker Biography:
Katherine Metz, RN, MBA has over 20 years' experience in health care, including direct patient care in medical nursing, home infusion, and pediatric and adult emergency & trauma. She also has experience in marketing and health care consulting.
She joined Abbott in 2018 after 7 years at CVS Health, where she was responsible for management and launch of specialty pharmacy products. At Abbott, Katherine helps our hospital and system laboratory customers to decrease clinical variability and increase revenue through implementation of the AlinIQ Clinical Decision Support (CDS) enabler.

Webinar:
Unlocking the Potential of the Laboratory through Clinical Decision Support

Webinar Abstract:
Is your health system asking more of you to drive down total cost of care, and support physician test ordering and interpretation? Based on a self-reported survey, physicians are uncertain about test ordering 15% of the time, and 8% of the time are uncertain about how to interpret the results.
Lab professionals are increasingly looked upon to provide diagnostic guidance to support clinical decision making. Further, the lab’s ability to demonstrate measurable impact on safety, quality, and cost reduction is critical in today’s environment.

In this webinar we will:
*Review the key challenges the laboratory industry is facing which is driving the need for improved diagnostic guidance solutions
*Encourage a common language and broader participation of the laboratory in the clinical decision making process
*Provide specific examples and use cases of effective clinical decision support implementations
*Foster selection of high-impact projects to effectively target clinical variability and drive best practice

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