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Healthcare Value Analysis Balanced Scorecard Can Up Your VA Performance
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Healthcare Value Analysis Balanced Scorecard Can Up Your VA Performance

June 6, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off on Healthcare Value Analysis Balanced Scorecard Can Up Your VA Performance

A Value Analysis Balanced Scorecard is a tool used to measure financial, customer, processes, and learning and growth data by value analysis leaders to improve their value analysis teams’ results. It was developed by Robert […]

Why Group Purchasing Is Only One Side of the Savings Triangle Equation
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Why Group Purchasing Is Only One Side of the Savings Triangle Equation

June 6, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off on Why Group Purchasing Is Only One Side of the Savings Triangle Equation

It has been my experience that very few things in life and in business have one all-encompassing solution. However, group purchasing seems to be the only savings strategy that supply chain professionals have embraced since […]

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Why Savings Validation is Mission Critical

April 22, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off on Why Savings Validation is Mission Critical

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions Every value analysis practitioner can tell you that they save money for their healthcare organization, but can they prove it? This is a crucial question since this is what […]

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Back to Basics – Forward to Big Savings

April 22, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off on Back to Basics – Forward to Big Savings

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions As the major league baseball season has just wrapped up their Spring Training and started their season, this is a good reminder for Value Analysis […]

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How to Select a Candidate for a Value Analysis Study

April 21, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off on How to Select a Candidate for a Value Analysis Study

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions First, I would like to explain the difference between a study and a project. A value analysis study is a detailed investigation and analysis of the functions of a […]

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How Do You Know if Your Supply Costs are Running High, Low, or Right Where They Should Be?

April 21, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off on How Do You Know if Your Supply Costs are Running High, Low, or Right Where They Should Be?

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions At this point in time, it is safe to say that we are well beyond using gut feel as a way of measuring our supply […]

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The #1 Critical Success Factor to Saving Big in the Healthcare Supply Chain

April 21, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off on The #1 Critical Success Factor to Saving Big in the Healthcare Supply Chain

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions The most important first few hours you can spend on any value analysis, supply utilization, or even major organization-wide value initiative is to “plan it […]

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How Much Are You Saving With Your Value Analysis Program?

April 21, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off on How Much Are You Saving With Your Value Analysis Program?

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions The established purpose of value analysis, created by Larry Miles in the 1940s at GE, was to look for lower cost functional alternatives to the products, services, technologies, and […]

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Turbocharge Your Value Analysis and Utilization Management Savings in 2021

February 9, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off on Turbocharge Your Value Analysis and Utilization Management Savings in 2021

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions I was just asked today by the editor of HPN Magazine to comment on the trend that most healthcare organizations consider value analysis to be a synonym of “product […]

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You Will Only Reap What You Sow with Clinical Supply Utilization Management

February 9, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off on You Will Only Reap What You Sow with Clinical Supply Utilization Management

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions “Future consequences are inevitably shaped by present actions.” This old proverb becomes a reality for healthcare supply chain organizations in that you must first plan, […]

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3 Things You Must Know About GPO Price Savings to Make Them Stick

February 9, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off on 3 Things You Must Know About GPO Price Savings to Make Them Stick

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions Over the last few decades, GPOs have been the driving force on price and standardization savings for healthcare organizations. However, as Isaac Newton’s third law states, “With every action, […]

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Featured Articles November 2020 – Healthcare VA & SUM Magazine

November 30, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off on 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 Guardion Managing Editors Note –There is Always a New Way – Robert […]

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Just Published Nov 2020- Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine

November 23, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off on Just Published Nov 2020- Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine

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    Hospital Value Analysis: Simplify, Systemize, and Automate Workflow Processes for Maximum Results

    We just conducted a survey regarding the biggest challenges for hospital value analysis professionals and found that their #1 challenge is needing more help to get their job done efficiently and effectively. While this answer [...]
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    Healthcare Value Analysis: Steps for Achieving Better Results

    There are many different iterations that value analysis has morphed, evolved, and emerged into leading up to 2022. Value analysis is predominantly applied to products, services, and technologies in the healthcare supply chain. The primary [...]
  • Enhancing Patient Experience Through Adult and Pediatric VAT Implementation
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    Enhancing Patient Experience Through Adult and Pediatric VAT Implementation

    Shonda Morrow, JD, MS, RN, CENP; Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois Kimberly Alsbrooks, BSN, RN, RT (R), VA-BC; BD, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA Guadalupe Ordaz-Nielsen, BSN, RN, VA-BC; Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois [...]
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