Ignoring A Customer In Your Value Analysis Process Can And Will Destroy Your Credibility
When we teach our clients’ value analysis team members in our Lean Value Analysis Program about the “Hierarchy of Customers” (internal and external), we start…
Articles by Robert Yokl
The Missing Link in Supply Expense Management
Do you have all of your supply expense management bases covered? It wasn’t so long ago that price and standardization was king in supply chain…
Did You Know That Standardization Can Cost You Money?
Not all standardization is good for your healthcare organization’s bottom line. For over 40+ years, the healthcare supply chain industry has espoused standardization as a…
What You Can’t See Will Hurt You
Most of your new saving opportunities are below the water line. We like to equate supply chain expense savings to an iceberg! Above the waterline…
Value Analysis Leadership Interview
Alan Weintraub, Chief Procurement Officer/Director of Support Services Enloe Medical Center, Chico, CA The following interview was conducted by Robert W. Yokl, Managing Editor, Healthcare…
Good Evidence: The Missing Link
Dee Donatelli, RN, BSN, MBA, Sr. Vice President, Provider Services, Hayes, Inc. There’s no question that great advances in medicine have been made over the…
The Search for Best Practices
It’s not the metrics that count, but how they lead you to superior performance. There is one overlooked fact about benchmarking; that it is the…
The Evolution of Value Analysis
Michael Bohon, Founding Principle, Healthcare Solutions Bureau Twenty-seven years ago, I unexpectedly found myself working in the supply chain sector of the healthcare industry in…
Navigating Uncharted Waters of Supply Utilization Management
Traditionally, the Healthcare Supply Chain saving game has been greatly influenced by the “price” savings opportunities offered by group purchasing contracts, standardization, and capitation. Unfortunately,…
Why Utilization Management is More Important than Ever Before!
An Important and Timely Message from Robert T. Yokl When I look at the Affordable Care Act’s new Value-Based Purchasing (VBP) Prospective Payment System that…
Reduce, Control and Eliminate Wasteful and Unnecessary Supply Utilization Practices
Go beyond price and standardization to save more in less time Traditionally, healthcare organizations have focused their value analysis efforts on lowering the price and…
The Seven-Percent Savings Solution
Why do we continue to pursue 1%, 2% or 3% savings solutions (i.e., price), when a 7% savings solution (i.e., utilization) is just as easily…
Turning Utilization Best Practices Into a Major Advantage
Why best practices need to be understood and investigated
While presenting a supply utilization savings