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Savings Beyond Price – You Control the Faucet with Consumption Management

April 2, 2024 Robert Yokl Comments Off

“Consumption management is an opportunity to fine tune contracting, vendor service levels, and clinicians’ use patterns to best practice levels.” Where to Find an Abundance of Savings Opportunities Beyond Price in These Inflationary Times Let’s […]

Featured Articles February 2023 – Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine

February 4, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Just Released February 2023 Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine Featured Articles Article Title/Link Article By: Link FEATURED – Driving Out Waste and Inefficient Use with Value Analysis Shaneka Demps, Manager, Value Analysis, BayCare […]

Starting Your Own Clinical Supply Utilization Management Program

January 30, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

I recently had a sales call with a hospital Director who was interested in starting a Clinical Supply Utilization Management (CSUM) program at his hospital. His reasons were that they had been doing as much […]

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

November 10, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Just Released November 2022 Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine Featured Articles Article Title/Link Article By: Link FEATURED – Healthcare Value Analysis Leadership Interview: Vendor Value Wade Blom, Director of Operations and Supply Chain, […]

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

June 17, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Just Released June 2022 Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine Featured Articles Article Title/Link Article By: Link FEATURED – Enhancing Patient Experience Through Adult and Pediatric VAT Implementation Shonda Morrow, Kimberly Alsbrooks, Guadalupe Ordaz-Nielsen, […]

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 […]

Healthcare Value Analysis: Are You Attacking Your Value Mismatches to Achieve Even Greater Savings?

February 22, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions One little-known secret in healthcare value analysis is that there are more savings to be achieved by identifying your value mismatches (i.e., lower cost alternatives available, but not employed) […]

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. […]

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

January 6, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Just Released January 2022 Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine Featured Articles Article Title/Link Article By: Link FEATURED – Bringing Major Value with Podcasting: An Interview with Power Supply Chain Podcast Team Hays Waldrop, […]

If You Don’t See Big Clinical Supply Utilization Savings, Does That Mean They Aren’t There?

December 10, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Supply Chain & Value Analysis — SVAH Solutions Ninety-five percent of hospitals and health systems have no way of knowing where their clinical supply utilization savings opportunities are right […]

How Do You Know if Your Supply Costs are Running High, Low, or Right Where They Should Be?

April 21, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions At this point in time, it is safe to say that we are well beyond using gut feel as a way of measuring our supply […]

February 2021 – Featured Articles – Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine

February 26, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Featured Articles Featured Article – Optimizing Patient Care in the Emergency Department Using a Guidewire-Assisted Intravascular Catheter Approved for Placement in the Internal and External Jugular Veins – Andrew Little, DO, AdventHealth Central Florida, KaiDan Guan, MBDC, BHSc, CRG-EVERSANA […]