Benchmarking Archives - Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine

How Should KPIs Be Employed to Increase Your Healthcare Organization’s Non-Salary Savings, Quality, and Outcomes?

September 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Targeted Savings While Improving Quality and Outcomes Can Be a Reality We are all looking for the “magic bullet” that will generate more non-salary savings for our healthcare organization while improving quality and outcomes. The […]

Why KPIs Can Help You Optimize Your Value Analysis Team’s Performance Almost Overnight

October 11, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

To stay ahead of the curve, we have always searched out advanced management techniques that could improve our hospital, system, or IDN client’s supply chain/value analysis performance. We started this practice when we discovered that […]

Historical Benchmarks Can Be Even Better Than Good

December 2, 2014 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Most department heads don’t believe third-party benchmarks. While our firm has over one million supply chain expense comparative benchmarks, more and more we are employing our clients’ own historical benchmarks since they can’t be disputed, […]

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Where Are You Getting Your Benchmarks?

December 3, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Multiple benchmarking sources ensure that you are getting them right the first time. Benchmarking is an art and a science, but there are some hard and fast rules that need to be followed to ensure […]

The Future of Benchmarking

August 5, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Elevate your benchmarking for greater accuracy, reliability, and insight. A recent survey by CAPS Research (co-sponsored by Arizona State University) of supply chain leaders indicated that there is a shift in benchmarking for greater accuracy, […]

The Search for Best Practices

April 5, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 search for best practices that leads to superior performance. This […]

Benchmarking Still Drives Savings

January 30, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Industry embraced a simple idea in the 1980s. The idea was that it was possible to search for the best practices that will lead to superior performance by comparing cost, time or quality of one […]