Generating Even More Savings from Your Price, Standardization, and Value Analysis Initiatives
By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions Let’s face it, we live in a GPO-centric healthcare supply chain world and that isn’t…
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11 Ways to Fast Track Non-Salary Savings After Covid-19
By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Supply Chain & Value Analysis — SVAH Solutions Since hospitals have been asked to temporarily shut down primary revenue…
Are Spreadsheets Holding Back Your Value Analysis Performance?
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions It is my estimate that sixty-four percent of all hospital, system, and IDN’s value analysis practitioners (VAP) are still…
Pursuit of Value Analysis Best Practice: Are We There Yet?
Maureen Hazen-Fritsky, RN, MHA, Independent Healthcare Consultant Amy Carroll, RN, MBA, CVAHP, Nuvance Health Robert Andrzejewski, MSE, Independent Management Consultant Introduction How do we merge…
How Triangulating Your Supply Value Analysis Studies Destroys Speculation, Lip Service and All Other Push-Backs You Encounter
By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions I was working with a client’s value analysis team and one of their value analysis…
Sometimes the Easiest Way Is the Simplest
Robert W. Yokl, Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions It was just a regular working week for me until I received an email from a health system’s…
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…
How to Become Best-of-the-Best in Everything You Do
Understanding your healthcare organization and that of your competitors How do you know if your people, products, and processes are world class or just so-so? How…
Utilization Is Not a New Concept but How We View and Attack It Is!
The other day I was browsing through my copy of the Charles Housley (Bellwether League Honoree 2008) edited book Product Standardization and Evaluation which was…