Clinical Supply Utilization Archives - Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine

Incorporating Clinical Supply Utilization Management Into Value Analysis

February 15, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Pricing strategies alone are becoming less effective in managing healthcare supply chain costs, and healthcare organizations will need to explore other avenues for savings to fill the gaps. Supply utilization management is a key approach […]

Clinical Supply Utilization Management: The Gift that Keeps Giving Big Savings

February 15, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Clinical supply utilization management (CSUM) is not a one-time event but instead is a fluid and ever-changing system to track everything in your supply chain using patient volume centric metrics to ascertain where savings, problems, […]

Enhancing Your Contracting Strategy

November 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

“In the evolving healthcare landscape, incorporating clinical product utilization into the contracting strategy can uncover significant savings.” The contract cycle is a familiar space for most healthcare organizations. It may look like the following scenario. […]

3 Steps to Fast Tracking Clinical Supply Utilization Savings

November 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Every chief financial officer at every health system wants more savings from their supply chain organization and even more so today with the challenge of inflation hitting our marketplace. Don’t be surprised when you are […]

Value Analysis Roundtable Discussion: Clinical Supply Utilization Opening Up Invisible Supply and Quality Optimization Opportunities

September 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

We are all looking for new supply chain expense savings beyond price and standardization to help our healthcare organizations weather this perfect storm (high inflation, high labor costs, and shrinking bottom line) we all are […]

Clinical Supply Utilization Management: It’s Easy with the Right Analytics

February 22, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions If you are honest with yourself, you know that your price and standardization savings are slowly disappearing. Yet, your healthcare organization still needs to save millions of dollars annually […]

Clinical Integration for Your Value Analysis Program and Supply Chain

February 22, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Supply Chain & Value Analysis — SVAH Solutions With the new term “Clinical Integration in Supply Chain” that has been embraced by many health systems throughout the country, there […]

How to Use Clinical Utilization Management as an Alert System for Quality Improvement

August 11, 2018 Robert Yokl Comments Off

by Robert W. Yokl, Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions – www.SVAHSolutions.com How to be Everywhere in Your Supply Chain at Once! When we are reviewing clinical supply utilization reports for client hospitals throughout the country, I always […]

Rewind Then Fast Forward to the Next Big Supply Chain Savings

April 15, 2018 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert W. Yokl, Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions Revelations Eight Years Out from Our Publishing of “Healthcare Supply Utilization Revolution – The Future of Supply Chain Expense Management” Eight years ago, we self-published and distributed our free book, […]