Value Analysis Archives - Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine

Is Your Value Analysis Program at a Critical Fork in the Road?

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Envision the Future of Your Value Analysis Program It is incredible the progress that value analysis has made in our healthcare industry as an accepted methodology for optimizing costs, quality, and functionality of the products, […]

Aligning Value Analysis with Strategic Priorities: Driving Quality, Outcomes, and Cost Stewardship

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

In today’s rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the stakes have never been higher. Organizations face mounting pressures to improve patient outcomes, reduce preventable harm, control costs, and demonstrate measurable value. At the center of these challenges […]

The Critical Role of Robust Instructions for Use in Healthcare Value Analysis

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

When evaluating medical devices and products, Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals often focus on evidence, outcomes, and costs. Yet one critical factor that directly influences all three is sometimes overlooked: the quality of a device’s Instructions […]

Value Analysis Leadership Interview: Value Analysis Beyond the IFU

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Value Analysis Professionals have a daunting task as they must manage so many areas in the healthcare supply chain like new product request evaluations, resilience product alternatives, solving product problems such as increasing infection rates, […]

Clinical Value Analysis Strategies for Getting the Most Out of Your Contracting

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

In healthcare, conversations around cost saving measures in value analysis, contracting, or supply chain meetings often default to “price at the pump” strategies that include chasing the lowest cost or best tier. On the surface, […]

Making a Difference with Savings Beyond Price Optimization

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Producing a Major Impact on Savings Beyond Price Optimization There are many different views about how Value Analysis is making a difference in our healthcare world, but I believe the biggest difference that Value Analysis […]

One Multi-Site Health System’s Transformative Journey to Optimize Their Inventory with Electronic Shelf Labels (ESL)

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Hospitals today typically contain hundreds of storage rooms and thousands of supply bins across multiple, geographically dispersed facilities in their health system. This translates to hundreds of thousands of paper labels that need to be […]

Don’t Ignore the Value in Value Analysis Mentors

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Everyone likes to feel that because they run a Value Analysis Program for a certain period of time, they know everything they need to know. I find it great that most that feel this way […]

Special Interview: The New Sales Dynamic of Value Analysis

October 28, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

In this special interview with our key Value Analysis Sales Advisor, Mark Copeland, we delve further into the challenges that vendors, clinicians, and health systems run into on an ongoing basis when dealing with new […]

Advancing Professionalism and Evidence-Based Practice: A Call to Action for Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals

June 10, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

In today’s complex and rapidly evolving healthcare landscape, the role of the healthcare value analysis professional is more important than ever. Charged with evaluating products, technologies, and services to ensure clinical efficacy, cost-effectiveness, and safety, […]

Why Benchmarking for Best Practices Can Be a Value Analysis Team’s Best Friend

June 10, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Part of being a data-driven organization means making decisions based on objective, unbiased evidence—not opinions or educated guesses. How can your organization ensure opinions and bias are not involved? Benchmarking. Benchmark data provides a foundation […]

How Do You Set Up Physician Engagement in Value Analysis?

June 10, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

In the evolution of mature value analysis programs, physician engagement is crucial. Physicians bring first-hand clinical expertise to the team, ensuring that decisions prioritize patient safety and follow best practices. Engaged physicians foster cross-functional collaboration […]

The Time Has Come for a Savings Beyond Price Cost Optimization Value Analysis Team

June 10, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Are You Ready to Step Up to the Cost Challenge, Value Analysis Professionals? These are challenging times when it comes to revenues and bottom line costs for health systems throughout the country. Even those that […]