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Sell Concepts, Ideas, and Results – Not Services or Things

April 15, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions All companies tend to train their sales reps to sell services or things, when they should be training them to sell concepts, ideas, or results. The reason why this tenet […]

Are Spreadsheets Holding Back Your Value Analysis Performance?

April 15, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 […]

December 2019 – Featured Articles – Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine

December 27, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Featured Articles Featured Article – Maureen Hazen-Fritsky, RN, MHA, Independent Healthcare Consultant; Amy Carroll, RN, MBA, CVAHP, Nuvance Health; Robert Andrzejewski, MSE, Independent Management Consultant – Pursuit of Value Analysis Best Practice: Are We There […]

Pursuit of Value Analysis Best Practice: Are We There Yet?

December 17, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 our value analysis processes? That was a question proposed by […]

“The Investment in Knowledge Pays the Best Interest.” Benjamin Franklin

December 6, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions Too often, I see value analysis practitioners “winging it” as opposed to investing in value analysis education so that they can understand the proper way to address a particular […]

What Are We Missing if We Are to Secure All Loose Ends in Our Supply Chain Costs?

December 6, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions I am very happy to see all sorts of focused value analysis teams in our healthcare supply chain world. Most organizations have the traditional Surgical […]

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation…” Aristotle

May 8, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions We all have a goal for our hospital value analysis programs to be the best they can be in the eyes of our senior management and peers. Yet, too often we […]

What is Your Single-Minded Purpose in the Healthcare Value Analysis World?

May 8, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations – SVAH Solutions This may seem like a rhetorical question given we all have our defined titles, job descriptions, and assigned duties in our organizations, but how do you […]

But the Healthcare Supply Chain is Different!

May 8, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Michael Bohon, Managing Director—Healthcare Solutions Bureau How many times have you heard someone say the above statement as to why ideas, concepts and practices from other industries will not work in healthcare? Personally, I cannot […]

Applying a Value Analysis Approach to Purchased Services: Case Studies in Clinical Engineering

May 8, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 […]

Where Do Value Analysis Professionals Come From?

May 8, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

James Russell, RN-BC, MBA, CVAHP, Value Analysis Program Director, UW Health, WI Whenever I tell people what I do for a living, about half just nod and smile (having no idea, or interest in, what […]

What Top Skills Are Required to Make You Successful in Healthcare Value Analysis?

May 8, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations – SVAH Solutions For most healthcare supply chain organizations, value analysis has become mission critical to the success of savings and quality improvement goals. The concept of value analysis […]

Why Validation of Your Savings is Now Mission Critical for All Healthcare Organizations

May 8, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions The Healthcare Financial Management Association tells us that that your free-standing hospital, multi-hospital system, or IDN’s payment systems are evolving from fee-for-performance to value-based purchasing, readmission restrictions, and bundled […]