Purchase Cost is the Tip of the Iceberg!
What Happens After the Right Product, at the Right Price, at the Right Time is Delivered to the Right Person? Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH…
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Hands Down the Best Tool In Healthcare Supply Chain…Continual Benchmarking!
Robert W. Yokl – Sr., VP Operations, SVAH Solutions Benchmarking is nothing new to the healthcare supply chain and clearly you are thinking right now…
One of the Most Powerful Tools for Value Analysis is Strategic Planning
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions “Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.” This quote by Scottish Philosopher Thomas Carlyle is at the core…
Rewind Then Fast Forward to the Next Big Supply Chain Savings
Robert W. Yokl, Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions Revelations Eight Years Out from Our Publishing of “Healthcare Supply Utilization Revolution – The Future of Supply Chain Expense Management”…
The Progression of Value Analysis
James Russell, RN-BC, MBA, CVAHP, Value Analysis Program Director, UW Health, WI I have been thinking a lot lately about not only what value analysis…
How Leading Hospitals Gain the Best Value From Optimized Inventory Management and Supply Spend
How the Right Metrics, Combined with the Right Inventory Management Technologies, Ensure Accurate Data Collection and Analytics that Enable Providers to Optimize Their Inventory and…
Evidence Can Be Found from Many Sources with a High or Low Degree of Reliability. Are You Employing the Right Sources?
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions I just reviewed the online poll results on our Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Magazine website that asked the…
That Which We Call Evidence
James Russell, RN-BC, MBA, CVAHP, Value Analysis Program Director, UW Health, WI In our busy, healthcare focused careers, buzzwords, buzz-phrases, and acronyms seem to come…
Where Does Evidence Fit Into Your Value Analysis Process?
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions First, I hope all of our readers have a set value analysis process (i.e., defined number of steps to be…
Moving Beyond Standardization and Best Price
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions Twenty-five or more years ago, hospitals and health systems (that’s all there was at that time) had committees called Standardization Committees that…
We Don’t Need Everything We Are Buying Now!
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions The fastest, easiest, and most effective way to save money in value analysis is to stop approving so many…
Value Analysis Leadership Interview
James Russell, RN-BC, MBA, CVAHP, Value Analysis Program Director, UW Health, WI James Russell, RN-BC, MBA, CVAHP, is the Value Analysis Program Director at UW Health…
A Common Mistake Hospitals Make in Their Saving Efforts
Michael Bohon, CPSM, C.P.M., CMRP, Managing Director of HealthCare Solutions Bureau Decisions, Decisions You, as the supply chain leader for your hospital organization, have been…