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How Utilization Reporting Helps You Pick Up Savings Opportunities Including Price

June 6, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Price is a very simple element of the healthcare supply chain procurement process. You order the product at that price and get the total spend for that line-item product. This is the total spend that […]

Featured Articles March 2022 – Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine

March 7, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Just Released March 2022 Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine Featured Articles Article Title/Link Article By: Link FEATURED – Blood Gas Analyzer Changeover Helps Improve Quality of Care and Workflow at a Large Urban […]

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 […]

Benchmarking is Essential for Your Value Analysis and Utilization Management Success

February 22, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions We have found that benchmarking, or the search for all industries’ best practices, is the best technique we know of to improve your value analysis and utilization management performance. […]

Healthcare Supply Chain: The Worst Number in the Savings Game is One

December 10, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Supply Chain & Value Analysis — SVAH Solutions The number one strategy for saving money in the healthcare supply chain is by saving on price. When you look at […]

The #1 Critical Success Factor to Saving Big in the Healthcare Supply Chain

April 21, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions The most important first few hours you can spend on any value analysis, supply utilization, or even major organization-wide value initiative is to “plan it […]

You Will Only Reap What You Sow with Clinical Supply Utilization Management

February 9, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions “Future consequences are inevitably shaped by present actions.” This old proverb becomes a reality for healthcare supply chain organizations in that you must first plan, […]

Best Practices for Your Bottom Line in 2021

February 9, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions Hello 2021! I think most of us are happy to see 2020 pass us by and we can now focus on our goals for 2021. […]

There is Always a New Way

November 19, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions “There is always a new way: A new way to solve a problem, a new way of climbing the mountain. The ability to identify that […]

Cost Optimization Isn’t About Price Savings Any Longer

July 13, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions I would assume that we would all like to be more cost efficient, functional, and effective with our value analysis programs. So, what’s holding us back? In my opinion, […]

Why Early Prevention is Better Than the Cure with Healthcare Supply Utilization Management

July 13, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Supply Chain & Value Analysis — SVAH Solutions We all get excited when we identify a nice big utilization and/or value analysis savings opportunity. We get even more excited when […]

5 Tips to Better Visualize Data You Want to Present to Get More Yeses on Your Proposals

July 13, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions One little known secret of persuasion is to help your customers visualize, with charts, graphs or graphics, the data you want to present to them to get more yeses. […]

Winning with the Successful Value Analysis and Supply Utilization Mindset

July 13, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions There are hundreds of supply chain articles that are written on various change models, strategies, and techniques to reduce costs while maintaining or improving quality […]