Are Your Suppliers Considered Your Value Analysis Advisors™?
It is our opinion that a wealth of untapped knowledge and expertise exists within your supplier organizations, but isn’t being regularly tapped into by value…
Articles by Robert Yokl
It’s Time to Stack the Deck in Your Favor
The other day I completed a new SMART Success Value Analysis Model for a major product group for one of our large IDN customers. This new…
Standardization: Time for a New Model
Alan Weintraub, FABC, Chief Procurement Officer, Enloe Medical Center, Chico, CA I heard it again the other day. I was reading an application from a job…
Leadership
Robert T. Yokl “Leadership is the capacity to translate vision into reality.” Warren Bennis You might think that great leadership is some superhuman activity, but it is…
A Strategic Approach to Cost Containment In Hospitals
How Many C’s Are In Success? Maureen Hazen, RN, MHA, Associate Director, Berkley Research Group’s Healthcare Practice and Robert Andrzejewski, MS, Associate, Berkley Research Group’s Healthcare …
Transparent Processes Use Data
James Russell, RN-BC, Value Analysis Facilitator, UF Health at Jacksonville VCU Health System, Richmond, VA Value Analysis Facilitators frequently find themselves estimating the impact of…
How to Select Your Value Analysis Projects
The Key to Value Analysis Success is Having the Right Items On Your Agenda Every Time How are you selecting your value analysis projects? Is…
What Does Value Analysis Mean to You?
When you think of the term “value analysis” (VA) as it relates to the healthcare supply chain, what does this mean to you? I have…
Savings and Quality Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
We have all heard the criticism that any value analysis initiative can and will eventually create quality issues for patients, or some variation of this…
Supply LifeCycle Cost Management TM
As this issue of HVAM suggests, the new healthcare economy is all about saving time, controlling costs, improving quality, and expanding the scope (population management)…
Connecting the Dots: Time, Cost, and Quality
It’s important to master all three cost drivers. Value analysis is an interconnected process centering on time, cost, and quality. If you aren’t focusing on…
Double-Barrel Approach to Value Analysis
Cutting Costs and Waste While Also Improving Quality The late and great comedian, Rodney Dangerfield, always talked about not getting any respect in his daily…
Nursing Impact Analysis Program: Raising Up the Voice of Nursing
Karen E. Bry, RN, BA, CPHQ, System Director for Nursing Education and Professional Practice, Sinai Health System, Chicago Illinois. Historically the rank and file, front…