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Perfect Storm: COVID-19 Pandemic and Ramped Inflation

Perfect Storm: COVID-19 Pandemic and Rampant Inflation

October 10, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 dealing with rampant inflation that is taking the wind out […]

Clinical Supply Utilization Management: It’s Easy with the Right Analytics

February 22, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 healthcare organization still needs to save millions of dollars annually […]

Clinical Value Analysis: Increasing Your Team Speed!

November 21, 2017 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 and reduce supply expense. This is nothing new. So what’s driving […]

Stumbling Around Vs. Targeting Your Clinical Supply Utilization Savings

April 18, 2017 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 our supply chain expenses. However, we knew if a certain department […]

The Missing Link in Supply Expense Management

April 15, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 management circles. All you needed to do was join one […]

Reduce, Control and Eliminate Wasteful and Unnecessary Supply Utilization Practices

February 14, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 standardizing on the products, services and technologies that they are […]

Benchmarking Still Drives Savings

January 30, 2013 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 superior performance by comparing cost, time or quality of one […]