Value Analysis Leadership Interview
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…
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Four Essential Productivity Tips for Value Analysis Practitioners
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…
What’s Your Value Analysis Onboarding Process?
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),…
Products or Outcomes: What Are You Buying?
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…
Gaining the Next Level
Tim Ingram, MBA/HCM, CMRP Over the years, we have all experienced many of the mainstream process improvement methodologies, such as, TQM, ISO, Value Analysis, Six…
PPI: How About Patient Preference Items?
James Russell, RN-BC, Value Analysis Facilitator, UF Health at Jacksonville VCU Health System, Richmond, VA The concept of Physician Preference Items (PPI) has been a…
Incorporating Supply Utilization Management (SUM) Into Your Value Analysis Program
Sum Will Help You Overcome the Three Biggest Challenges Value Analysis Teams Face Robert W. Yokl As value analysis professionals we would like to think…
FREE Webinar Thursday March 10, 2016 1:00 pm EST
FREE Webinar Thursday March 10, 2016 — 1:00 pm EST Supply Utilization Management (SUM) Business Intelligence for Healthcare Supply Chain and Value Analysis Professionals How…
Why You Need to Focus on Supply Utilization Management
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, Strategic Value Analysis in Healthcare We know that value analysis practitioners are hungry for big savings to justify their existence in their healthcare…
Are Your Suppliers Considered Your Value Analysis Advisors™?
It is our opinion that a wealth of untapped knowledge and expertise exists within your supplier organizations, but isn’t being regularly tapped into by value…
It’s Time to Stack the Deck in Your Favor
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…
Standardization: Time for a New Model
Alan Weintraub, FABC, Chief Procurement Officer, Enloe Medical Center, Chico, CA I heard it again the other day. I was reading an application from a job…
A Strategic Approach to Cost Containment In Hospitals
How Many C’s Are In Success? Maureen Hazen, RN, MHA, Associate Director, Berkley Research Group’s Healthcare Practice and Robert Andrzejewski, MS, Associate, Berkley Research Group’s Healthcare …