How to Integrate Utilization into Your Hospital’s Contracting and Price Processes
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…
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What’s Behind a Mature Supply Chain Organization’s Operational Excellence and Value Enhancement? Training!
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…
Knowledge is Power if You Enhance Your Supply Chain Expense Data to Produce Meaningful Metrics
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…
The Lone Ranger Effect
Healthcare value analysis is a real profession and a lifetime career for those who decide to make it so. Yet, too many value analysis professionals…
The Best Way to Gain Value Analysis Focus and Performance
Robert W. Yokl, Sr. Vice President, SVAH Solutions As we enter in the new level of quality and supply chain performance with our value analysis…
Supply Utilization Management: Flavor of the Month Fad or the Next Mission-Critical Cost and Quality Control System?
Robert W. Yokl, Senior Vice President, SVAH Solutions Supply utilization management (SUM) has its origins in the accounting world where it is known as activity-based…
Value Analysis Leadership Interview
Beth Potter, RN, CMRP, CVAHP, UnityPoint Health, Des Moines, IA Mary (Beth) Potter is the Immediate Past President of the Association of Healthcare Value Analysis…
Products or Outcomes: What Are You Buying?
Lynn Everard, Managing Director, Valumatrix, LLC In today's healthcare world there are only two things for sale: products and outcomes. In the hospital supply chain…
Gaining the Next Level
Tim Ingram, MBA/HCM, CMRP Over the years, we have all experienced many of the mainstream process improvement methodologies, such as, TQM, ISO, Value Analysis, Six…
Re-Energizing Your Value Analysis Program
Robert W. Yokl As we begin this New Year of 2016, I thought I would offer my view on how to get unstuck from the…
FREE Webinar Thursday March 10, 2016 1:00 pm EST
FREE Webinar Thursday March 10, 2016 — 1:00 pm EST Supply Utilization Management (SUM) Business Intelligence for Healthcare Supply Chain and Value Analysis Professionals How…
Healthcare Value Analysis, Collaboration, and an IV Fluid Shortage
James Russell, RN-BC, Value Analysis Facilitator, VCU Health System, Richmond, VA A robust Value Analysis department will collaborate with many other divisions within a hospital on…
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…