Value Analysis Checklists Can Make Your VA Job Easier
Robert T. Yokl Checklists have long been used by pilots, astronauts, and architects to avoid costly and life threating mistakes. Now, even surgeons worldwide are…
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Healthcare Value Analysis, Collaboration, and an IV Fluid Shortage
James Russell, RN-BC, Value Analysis Facilitator, VCU Health System, Richmond, VA A robust Value Analysis department will collaborate with many other divisions within a hospital on…
Are Your Suppliers Considered Your Value Analysis Advisors™?
It is our opinion that a wealth of untapped knowledge and expertise exists within your supplier organizations, but isn’t being regularly tapped into by value…
Transparent Processes Use Data
James Russell, RN-BC, Value Analysis Facilitator, UF Health at Jacksonville VCU Health System, Richmond, VA Value Analysis Facilitators frequently find themselves estimating the impact of…
How to Select Your Value Analysis Projects
The Key to Value Analysis Success is Having the Right Items On Your Agenda Every Time How are you selecting your value analysis projects? Is…
What Does Value Analysis Mean to You?
When you think of the term “value analysis” (VA) as it relates to the healthcare supply chain, what does this mean to you? I have…
Savings and Quality Aren’t Mutually Exclusive
We have all heard the criticism that any value analysis initiative can and will eventually create quality issues for patients, or some variation of this…
Nursing Impact Analysis Program: Raising Up the Voice of Nursing
Karen E. Bry, RN, BA, CPHQ, System Director for Nursing Education and Professional Practice, Sinai Health System, Chicago Illinois. Historically the rank and file, front…
Lack of Training Is Holding Back Big Gains in Value Analysis
Training your VA teams is the magic bullet for your VAT’s success. The late Zig Ziglar, great speaker, author, and trainer, once said, “If you…
2 Tactics to Help You Negotiate with Your VA Customers
Your customers don’t need everything they are requesting. One thing I have observed over the last 20 years as a value analysis trainer and practitioner…
A Long-View On Value Analysis
CEO Jamie C. Kowalski, Consulting, LLC, Milwaukee, WI Back in the day, as many say, could anyone even imagine that Value Analysis would be what…
Keeping Hospital Value Analysis Analytics Simple
Less is more when it comes to telling a story with your healthcare value analysis analytics reports. I cannot tell you how many meetings I…
Evidence is One Key to Your Success in Healthcare Value Analysis
We are a skeptical group in healthcare! This attitude is brought about by the medical and scientific training we have received in our schooling. We…