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Special Value Analysis Leadership Interview: Out of Isolation – Winning Strategies for Forgotten Supply Chain Leaders
About This Interview Independent, critical access, and rural hospitals often run supply chain with just two or three people. Mark Litton discusses how peer support, well-aligned supplier partners, and practical tools can help these teams […]
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Savings Beyond Price – Are You Ready to Up Your Savings Game?
Savings beyond price sounds like a simple term but it is much more complex than you think in order to actually make savings happen. Ideally, savings would be all about gaining a better price or […]
Clinical Supply Utilization
A CSUM Program Is Not the Finish Line
Implementing a Clinical Supply Utilization Management (CSUM) program is an important first step, but it should never be considered the finish line. In fact, having a CSUM program and having a proficient CSUM program are […]
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Healthcare’s Next Competitive Advantage Is An Integrated Operating Model
Aligning clinical, operational, and supply chain leadership into a single operating model helps accelerate innovation, reduce variation, and improve organizational performance. A new orthopedic surgeon joins a health system with the promise of expanding access […]
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Beyond the Committee Table: Networking as a Strategy for Operationalizing the Quintuple Aim
Healthcare value analysis has always been a team sport. No single professional, however skilled, holds all of the clinical, financial, operational, and evidentiary knowledge required to make a sound product or technology decision. Yet many […]
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Approval Isn’t the Finish Line: Why Value Analysis Must Own the Path from Decision to Results
Healthcare organizations spend enormous effort evaluating products and making decisions. The bigger opportunity may be what happens after the committee says yes. Healthcare organizations have spent years improving how they evaluate products, technologies, and services. […]
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Speed to Safety: From Winging It to Ownership in Recall Management
Every healthcare organization manages recalls, but not every organization has a defined process for managing them. That distinction can significantly affect patient safety, regulatory compliance, staff workload, and organizational risk. Through my work with the […]
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From Opportunity to Outcome: Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution in Healthcare Value Analysis
Healthcare organizations are not short on cost-saving opportunities. Across the country, supply chain teams are identifying price variation, contract leakage, supplier fragmentation, SKU proliferation, utilization variation, and product standardization opportunities. Analytics have improved, data is […]
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Lessons from The Emperor’s New Clothes: The Courage to Ask Why in Value Analysis
How many times have we heard the answer in healthcare, “That’s the way we’ve always done it?” How many times have we recognized that answer wasn’t good enough? More importantly, how many times have we […]
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You Have a Supply Chain Strategy, but Do You Have an Ongoing Clinical Supply Utilization Strategy?
“Ongoing visibility is what allows Clinical Supply Utilization Management to continue producing savings opportunities year after year.” For years, healthcare organizations have relied on the two most familiar strategies to reduce supply costs: price and […]
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Beyond Efficiency: Evaluating the True Cost and Value of AI in Healthcare Value Analysis
Artificial intelligence is increasingly being positioned as a solution to one of healthcare’s most persistent challenges: there is simply more information, more complexity, and more work than many teams have the capacity to manage effectively. […]
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Podcast 99 – Out of Isolation – Winning Strategies for Forgotten Healthcare Supply Chain Leaders
This podcast got its start when an industry colleague introduced me to Mark Litton to talk about his unique approach to working with rural and smaller hospitals. Mark is CEO of Howard Medical Company and […]