Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine

How to Integrate Utilization into Your Hospital’s Contracting and Price Processes

August 23, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert W. Yokl, Sr. Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions What if you knew that your overall supply utilization (total cost per operating metric) was at best practice levels for the commodity and/or product group you are […]

What’s Behind a Mature Supply Chain Organization’s Operational Excellence and Value Enhancement? Training!

August 23, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Timothy Hagler At home in South Carolina we have a saying that is especially poignant when we see one of our good friends hanging out with their old hunting dogs. We say, “’tarnt a new […]

Positioning Yourself for Value Analysis Success

August 23, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert W. Yokl When I first entered the value analysis world 24 years ago, I thought I was at a huge disadvantage by not being a nurse or a clinician. It was a feeling of […]

Knowledge is Power if You Enhance Your Supply Chain Expense Data to Produce Meaningful Metrics

August 23, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl Data in and of itself is useless, but if enhanced with clinical, financial and supply chain information to produce meaningful metrics it can become a powerful tool to uncover savings opportunities, quality and […]

Spring 2016 Issue of Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine

May 2, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Articles in this issue: Value Analysis Leadership Interview with Beth Potter, Immediate Past President of AHVAP – This interview focuses on AHVAP's Certified Value Analysis Healthcare Professional Certification program. What is Your Value Analysis Onboarding […]

The Lone Ranger Effect

April 27, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Healthcare value analysis is a real profession and a lifetime career for those who decide to make it so. Yet, too many value analysis professionals decide to go it alone when they enter this profession. […]

The Best Way to Gain Value Analysis Focus and Performance

April 27, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert W. Yokl, Sr. Vice President, SVAH Solutions As we enter in the new level of quality and supply chain performance with our value analysis programs, we are now being called upon to do so […]

A Blueprint for Greater Performance and Focus In Value Analysis and Supply Utilization Management

April 27, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President, SVAH Solutions We know from experience that any system as a whole is greater than its parts. It’s the same with value analysis (VA) and supply utilization management (SUM) practices. As […]

Supply Utilization Management: Flavor of the Month Fad or the Next Mission-Critical Cost and Quality Control System?

April 27, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert W. Yokl, Senior Vice President, SVAH Solutions Supply utilization management (SUM) has its origins in the accounting world where it is known as activity-based costing (ABC). The best mainstream adoption of this ABC methodology […]

Value Analysis Leadership Interview

April 27, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Beth Potter, RN, CMRP, CVAHP, UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, IA Mary (Beth) Potter is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals. She is also a Certified Material Resource Professional, Certified […]

Four Essential Productivity Tips for Value Analysis Practitioners

April 27, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yok, President, SVAH Solutions No longer can value analysis practitioners just evaluate new products for their appropriateness, quality, and their safety features. VA practitioners now need to be more productive in their practices […]

What’s Your Value Analysis Onboarding Process?

April 27, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

James Russell, RN-BC, Value Analysis Facilitator, UF Health at Jacksonville “What’s your value analysis onboarding process?” During an interview for a Value Analysis Facilitator (VAF), we had a candidate ask this question. We looked at […]

Products or Outcomes: What Are You Buying?

April 27, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Lynn Everard, Managing Director, Valumatrix, LLC In today's healthcare world there are only two things for sale: products and outcomes. In the hospital supply chain we have a long history of bringing down unit product […]