healthcare organizations

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 using paper and Excel spreadsheet systems to manage their value […]

Mike Maguire, Senior Vice President and Chief Supply Chain Officer at PartsSource The U.S. healthcare system is the most costly across the globe. Seeking to cut waste from the system, American healthcare organizations are under […]

Laura L. Polson, BSN, RN-BC, CVAHP Our Clinical Value Analysis (VA) roles are evolving. Every day healthcare leadership struggles to improve the quality of care and reduce supply expense. This is nothing new. So what’s driving […]

Hani Elias, JD, MPH, CEO and Co-Founder of Procured Health Gina Thomas, RN, MBA, Procured Health Chief Development Officer Hani Elias is the CEO and co-founder of Procured Health. Prior to starting Procured, he was a consultant […]

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions One of the missing elements in most healthcare organizations’ value analysis methodologies is a value analysis job plan, or as Larry Miles, the father of value analysis, says, “A system for […]

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 […]

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 […]

The other day I completed a new SMART Success Value Analysis Model for a major product group for one of our large IDN customers. This new SMART Model is intended to highlight all of the areas […]

By Michael B. Neely, Senior Vice President, Optimé Supply Chain Healthcare reform has placed providers of care under intense pressure to reduce costs and improve operations. Value Analysis teams and Supply Chain are among the […]

Barbara Strain, Director, Supply Chain Analytics University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA Barbara Strain is a graduate of California State University and one of the founding members, past president and Board Member of the […]

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 […]