ABOUT THIS 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.
Update frequency:
bimonthly
Average audio length:
65 minutes
Guest interviews
English
United States
14 episodes
since Sept. 26, 2024
episodic
LATEST EPISODE 🔗
Drs. Geoff Baird and Mike Astion discuss the current promises and pitfalls of MCED testing in the USA including issues of cancer detection, overdiagnosis, costs, and insurance payments.
Learning Objectives:
After listening to the podcast the listener will be able to:
Describe the societal trade…
PREVIOUS EPISODES 🔗
Summary.This episode of the PLUGS podcast was recorded live at ADLM 2026. PLUGSmembers came to the PLUGS tradeshow booth to post questions on our questionboard and participate in live Q&A. The answers were provided by University of Washington faculty as well as PLUGS members. Popular topics wer…
Summary.In this episode of the PLUGS podcast, Mike Astion interviews Dr. Geoff Baird about AI in the Lab. Over the last year, Geoff and a few other University of Washington faculty members have been intensely studying and implementing AI in daily work. Geoff is on a quest to integrate AI into the U…
In this 11th edition of the PLUGS podcast, Drs. Jane Dickerson, Mike Astion and Geoff Baird work through cases of conflict management and apology related to laboratory stewardship. The cases come from PLUGS members and add depth to our recent PLUGS National Webinar on the same topic. The cases cove…
In this 10th edition of the PLUGS podcast Dr. Mike Astion interviews Paige Haas and Darci Sternen, who are Laboratory Genetic Counselors in the Dept of Laboratories at Seattle Childrens Hospital. Paige and Darci are active in our clinical laboratory practice and in our PLUGS program where they are …
In this holiday edition of the PLUGS podcast, Drs. Jane Dickerson, Mike Astion andGeoff Baird reflect on the history and learnings from PLUGS, as well as from thestewardship practices at the University of Washington, Seattle Childrens and PLUGS members around the country. We also give PLUGS its fir…
In this episode of the PLUGS podcast, Drs. Mike Astion and Geoff Bairddiscuss the massive testing panels associated with the belief that the environment–through its many metals, biotoxins, microbes, and allergens—is a significant source of unresolved signs and symptoms.
The time stamped highlights…
In this episode of the PLUGS podcast, Drs. Mike Astion and Geoff Bairddiscuss some foundational principles in lab stewardship and management. Give a listen.
05:30 Dunning-Kruger effect: dealing with incompetence through feedback fromannoying logical contrarians.09:15: The impostor syndrome: Helping…
In this episode, Dr. Geoff Baird and I interview Elizabeth Pendo, the Senior Associate Dean of Academic Affairs, and the Kell-eye Y Testy Professor of Law at the University of Washington School of Law. Our topic is medical legal collaboration to improve laboratory stewardship. Dean Pendo has a broa…
This version of the podcast was recorded live at the PLUGS Summit in Seattle Washington on April 4, 2025. As part of the Summit, we invited attendees to a PLUGS podcast recording on the second day of the Summit. The goal was to discuss issues raised at the Summit and answer questions from attende…
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