IDNs

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 country? That is a crazy question to ask but believe […]

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 patient outcomes for their respective procedures/cases. While this remains a […]

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 is one underlying element that every team must have in order […]

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 think training is costly, just think of the cost of […]

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 our clients’ own historical benchmarks since they can’t be disputed, […]

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 also a Certified Material Resource Professional, Fellow of the Association […]

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 and time-tested tenet of value analysis to assist you to […]

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 that there is a shift in benchmarking for greater accuracy, […]