Value Analysis

Approval Isn’t the Finish Line: Why Value Analysis Must Own the Path from Decision to Results
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Approval Isn’t the Finish Line: Why Value Analysis Must Own the Path from Decision to Results

September 22, 2026 Robert Yokl Comments Off on Approval Isn’t the Finish Line: Why Value Analysis Must Own the Path from Decision to Results
Healthcare organizations spend enormous effort evaluating products and making decisions. The bigger opportunity may be what happens after the committee says yes. Healthcare organizations have spent years improving how they evaluate products, technologies, and services. […]
From Opportunity to Outcome: Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution in Healthcare Value Analysis
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From Opportunity to Outcome: Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution in Healthcare Value Analysis

September 22, 2026 Robert Yokl Comments Off on From Opportunity to Outcome: Closing the Gap Between Strategy and Execution in Healthcare Value Analysis
Healthcare organizations are not short on cost-saving opportunities. Across the country, supply chain teams are identifying price variation, contract leakage, supplier fragmentation, SKU proliferation, utilization variation, and product standardization opportunities. Analytics have improved, data is […]
Untapped Value Analysis Potential
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Untapped Value Analysis Potential

June 8, 2026 Robert Yokl Comments Off on Untapped Value Analysis Potential
Value analysis is progressing in responsibilities and outcomes in health systems throughout the country and has become an integral part of supply chain operations at most health systems. This is great news for this field […]
There’s a Hole in the Bucket: Rethinking Cost Optimization Through Utilization in Value Analysis
Clinical Supply Utilization

There’s a Hole in the Bucket: Rethinking Cost Optimization Through Utilization in Value Analysis

May 28, 2026 Robert Yokl Comments Off on There’s a Hole in the Bucket: Rethinking Cost Optimization Through Utilization in Value Analysis
“We can renegotiate contracts, standardize products, secure better pricing, but if utilization is misaligned, the “bucket” will continue to leak.” You may recognize the song lyrics, “There’s a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, dear […]
Chasing Waterfalls
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Chasing Waterfalls

May 28, 2026 Robert Yokl Comments Off on Chasing Waterfalls
Most sourcing organizations eventually encounter the same problem: projected savings and realized financial results rarely match perfectly. In some cases, realized performance falls short of projections. In others, projects outperform expectations. Yet the explanation is […]