Cost Optimization Isn’t About Price Savings Any Longer
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions I would assume that we would all like to be more cost efficient, functional, and effective with our value…
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The HC Supply Chain’s Untouchable: The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
By Chase Johanson, Executive Search Consultant, Gibson Consultants Pharmaceutical Costs Continue To Climb One of the most difficult challenges that hospitals and health systems all…
Why You Need to Stop Wasting Time and Money by Starting a Successful Supply Utilization Management Program Now
Robert W. Yokl, Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions Do you believe that Group Purchasing Organizations (GPOs) save big dollars for hospitals, systems, and IDNs across the…
Why Surgical Value Analysis is More Important than Ever Before
Robert W. Yokl, Senior Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions Historically, surgical value analysis (SVA) teams focused on evaluating the newest technologies that surgeons and clinical leaders believed would improve…
How is Your Value Analysis Pipeline?
Robert W. Yokl, Sr. Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions There are so many different methods, strategies, and configurations of value analysis teams/committees around the country, but there…
Lack of Training Is Holding Back Big Gains in Value Analysis
Training your VA teams is the magic bullet for your VAT’s success. The late Zig Ziglar, great speaker, author, and trainer, once said, “If you…
Historical Benchmarks Can Be Even Better Than Good
Most department heads don’t believe third-party benchmarks. While our firm has over one million supply chain expense comparative benchmarks, more and more we are employing…
Value Analysis Leadership Interview
Dee Donatelli, Sr. Vice President, Provider Services, Hayes, Inc. Dee Donatelli is the current President of the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Association. She is…
Don’t Stop VA Because There Is Resistance
You must learn to break through barriers and overcome opposition! In each issue of HVAM we will provide our readers with the one basic proven…
The Future of Benchmarking
Elevate your benchmarking for greater accuracy, reliability, and insight. A recent survey by CAPS Research (co-sponsored by Arizona State University) of supply chain leaders indicated…