Featured Articles Include: Value Analysis Leadership Interview with James Russell, RN-BC, MBA, CVAHP, Value Analysis Program Director, UW Health, WI A Common Mistake Hospitals Make in…
Robert W. Yokl, Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions I have a love-hate relationship with the newest mantra of our healthcare supply chain industry which is Cost,…
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…
James Russell, RN-BC, MBA, CVAHP, Value Analysis Program Director, UW Health, WI James Russell, RN-BC, MBA, CVAHP, is the Value Analysis Program Director at UW Health…
Michael Bohon, CPSM, C.P.M., CMRP, Managing Director of HealthCare Solutions Bureau Decisions, Decisions You, as the supply chain leader for your hospital organization, have been…
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions We congratulate the supply chain/value analysis practitioners that are attacking their utilization misalignments (i.e., the wasteful and inefficient consumption,…
Robert W. Yokl, Senior Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions Let’s face it, we need everyone involved in our value analysis program to stay positive, stay the course,…
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…
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…
Michael Bohon, CPSM, C.P.M., CMRP, Managing Director of HealthCare Solutions Bureau In the healthcare environment there are so many opportunities for us to spend money in…
David Hinkle, Independent Supply Chain Consultant, Issaquah, Washington When I first started out in supply chain management we didn’t use a lot of metrics to analyze…
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…
Timothy Hagler At home in South Carolina we have a saying that is especially poignant when we see one of our good friends hanging out…