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How Should KPIs Be Employed to Increase Your Healthcare Organization’s Non-Salary Savings, Quality, and Outcomes?

September 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Targeted Savings While Improving Quality and Outcomes Can Be a Reality We are all looking for the “magic bullet” that will generate more non-salary savings for our healthcare organization while improving quality and outcomes. The […]

Value Analysis Roundtable Discussion: Clinical Supply Utilization Opening Up Invisible Supply and Quality Optimization Opportunities

September 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

We are all looking for new supply chain expense savings beyond price and standardization to help our healthcare organizations weather this perfect storm (high inflation, high labor costs, and shrinking bottom line) we all are […]

Historical Benchmarks Can Be Even Better Than Good

December 2, 2014 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Most department heads don’t believe third-party benchmarks. While our firm has over one million supply chain expense comparative benchmarks, more and more we are employing our clients’ own historical benchmarks since they can’t be disputed, […]

Supply Utilization Myths, Misunderstandings, and Mistakes

December 4, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Why utilization savings are still illusive for most healthcare organizations Although the term utilization management seems to be understood by some supply chain managers and value analysis practitioners, in reality, there are still too many […]

Benchmarking

Where Are You Getting Your Benchmarks?

December 3, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Multiple benchmarking sources ensure that you are getting them right the first time. Benchmarking is an art and a science, but there are some hard and fast rules that need to be followed to ensure […]