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Value Analysis: It’s All About Data

May 13, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

James Russell, RN-BC, MBA, Value Analysis Facilitator VCU Health System, Richmond, VA After price is whittled down as low as it can go, utilization can offer an avenue for cost savings. However, without good data, […]

Expectations Are Higher for Value Analysis Than Ever Before!

May 9, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

>Bigger Savings Goals >More Accountability >Better Attention to Evidence >Quality Improvements >Reduce Infection Rates >Collaborate with Clinicians How do you take your Value Analysis Program to the whole new level that your senior leadership now […]

How To Avoid “Group Think”!

May 6, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

You need to diversify your VA team’s membership to energize your team. When selecting or replacing your value analysis team membership, you need to consider the diversity of your team’s members. Do they look alike, […]

Guide to Selecting Team Leaders and Team Members Based on Their Core Competencies

May 2, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

All winning teams are a combination of attitudes, talents, and traits matched with tight leadership to give them the needed vision, goals, objectives, and can-do attitude. We need team members and leaders who will take […]

Value Analysis Steering Committee: A Value Analysis Prerequisite

April 29, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

In each issue of HVAM we will provide our readers with the one basic proven and time tested tenet of value analysis to assist you to refine, enhance, and advance your value analysis processes. If […]

Ignoring A Customer In Your Value Analysis Process Can And Will Destroy Your Credibility

April 18, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

When we teach our clients’ value analysis team members in our Lean Value Analysis Program about the “Hierarchy of Customers” (internal and external), we start out by focusing on the obvious customer who is anyone […]

What You Can’t See Will Hurt You

April 11, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Most of your new saving opportunities are below the water line. We like to equate supply chain expense savings to an iceberg! Above the waterline are your price and standardization savings, which are easily identified. […]

The Evolution of Value Analysis

April 2, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Michael Bohon, Founding Principle, Healthcare Solutions Bureau Twenty-seven years ago, I unexpectedly found myself working in the supply chain sector of the healthcare industry in Arizona. For nineteen years prior to that I was also […]