Perfect Storm: COVID-19 Pandemic and Rampant Inflation
We went through almost two years of supply and labor shortages (not that these challenges are entirely solved) during the pandemic and now we are…
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Clinical Supply Utilization Management: It’s Easy with the Right Analytics
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions If you are honest with yourself, you know that your price and standardization savings are slowly disappearing. Yet, your…
Clinical Value Analysis: Increasing Your Team Speed!
Laura L. Polson, BSN, RN-BC, CVAHP Our Clinical Value Analysis (VA) roles are evolving. Every day healthcare leadership struggles to improve the quality of care…
Stumbling Around Vs. Targeting Your Clinical Supply Utilization Savings
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…
The Missing Link in Supply Expense Management
Do you have all of your supply expense management bases covered? It wasn’t so long ago that price and standardization was king in supply chain…
Reduce, Control and Eliminate Wasteful and Unnecessary Supply Utilization Practices
Go beyond price and standardization to save more in less time Traditionally, healthcare organizations have focused their value analysis efforts on lowering the price and…
Benchmarking Still Drives Savings
Industry embraced a simple idea in the 1980s. The idea was that it was possible to search for the best practices that will lead to…