Diana Berkland, PhD, RN—Vice President, Nursing & Clinical Services, Sanford Health; Erica DeBoer, MA, RN, CCRN-K, CNL- Clinical Nurse Leader, Sanford Health; Tom Harvieux, MSc—Senior Executive Director, Corporate Supply Chain Management, Sanford Health; Andrew Hogan, BSc – Associate […]
Robert W. Yokl, Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions Not that we want to add any more complexity or responsibilities to our busy supply value analysis programs, but one category of purchasing is becoming ever more present […]
Robert W. Yokl, Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions It was just a regular working week for me until I received an email from a health system’s value analysis coordinator with a data request. They wanted to […]
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 evaluated and approved the new products, services, and technologies for their hospital or […]
Robert W. Yokl, Senior Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions I cringe every time I sit through a seminar/workshop or read an article that describes value analysis or “value” with the equation of Cost over Quality equals […]
Robert W. Yokl, Sr. Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions What if you knew that your overall supply utilization (total cost per operating metric) was at best practice levels for the commodity and/or product group you are […]
Robert T. Yokl Data in and of itself is useless, but if enhanced with clinical, financial and supply chain information to produce meaningful metrics it can become a powerful tool to uncover savings opportunities, quality and […]
Miller, Susan G.1 MN, RN, CMRP and Bourque, Megan2 PhD 1Thomas Jefferson University Hospital, Philadelphia, PA 2Cornerstone Research Group, Burlington, ON Why Standardization was Important At Thomas Jefferson University Hospital (TJU), reducing supply costs […]
Leading Cost and Quality Strategies for the Healthcare Supply Chain The Latest Issue of Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine is now available online View the Issue here Inside this Issue FEATURED ARTICLE: A […]
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 SMART Model is intended to highlight all of the areas […]
Alan Weintraub, FABC, Chief Procurement Officer, Enloe Medical Center, Chico, CA I heard it again the other day. I was reading an application from a job candidate and there it was on the application – “chaired […]
James Russell, RN-BC, Value Analysis Facilitator VCU Health System, Richmond, VA One of the best things about being a Value Analysis Facilitator is the ability to help shine a light on other efficiency-minded folks in […]
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 these sources are waning, there is nowhere else to go […]
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