How Utilization Reporting Helps You Pick Up Savings Opportunities Including Price
Price is a very simple element of the healthcare supply chain procurement process. You order the product at that price and get the total spend…
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Featured Articles November 2020 – Healthcare VA & SUM Magazine
Featured Articles Featured Article – What Value Analysis Leaders Need to Know About Mattress Contamination – Bruce Rippe, Chairman, CEO, Trinity Guardion, Edmond Hooker, MD, Ph.D., Trinity…
Generating Even More Savings from Your Price, Standardization, and Value Analysis Initiatives
By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions Let’s face it, we live in a GPO-centric healthcare supply chain world and that isn’t…
Value Analysis and Utilization Tools: Healthcare Can’t Afford to Not Look at Inappropriate Utilization
Gina Thomas—Chief Development Officer, Lumere The January 13 New York Times article titled “Can Your Hip Replacement Kill You?” might seem dramatic, but it’s not…
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…
Measuring Value in Value Analysis Can Be Easier Than You Think
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions Price can be measured quickly, but value measurements take some time. Yet, that’s what value analysis is all about:…
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…
Top 5 Missed Savings Opportunities in the Hospital Supply Chain Today
1. Utilization Savings – The big savings are there but they are outside the comfort zone of many in our industry. We are still very price focused…
The New End Game!
Life cycle cost is the forgotten goal of all our cost and quality challenges. Every day we hear about all the latest and greatest new…
Supply Chain Expense Management: It’s Not About Price Any Longer
More and more supply chain and value analysis professionals are getting it: It’s not about price any longer. After more than 50 years of GPOs, systems, and…
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…
4 Key Points Supply Chain Managers Should Know About Utilization Management
1. It’s the future of supply chain expense management. Price and standardization have been the primary supply chain cost containment strategies for decades. Now that…
Value Analysis Begins & Ends with Training
VA training is the foundation for reaching even higher levels of savings There seems to be an aversion by value analysis practitioners to value analysis…