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Turbocharge Your Value Analysis and Utilization Management Savings in 2021

February 9, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions I was just asked today by the editor of HPN Magazine to comment on the trend that most healthcare organizations consider value analysis to be a synonym of “product […]

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. […]

Featured Articles November 2020 – Healthcare VA & SUM Magazine

November 30, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Featured Articles Featured Article – What Value Analysis Leaders Need to Know About Mattress Contamination – Bruce Rippe, Chairman, CEO, Trinity Guardion, Edmond Hooker, MD, Ph.D., Trinity Guardion Managing Editors Note –There is Always a New Way – Robert […]

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. […]

Get Better and More Sustainable Results

April 15, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions It is rare that a value analysis or utilization management savings or quality and safety improvements are sustainable in and of themselves. For them to stick, you need to […]

December 2019 – Featured Articles – Healthcare Value Analysis and Utilization Management Magazine

December 27, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Featured Articles Featured Article – Maureen Hazen-Fritsky, RN, MHA, Independent Healthcare Consultant; Amy Carroll, RN, MBA, CVAHP, Nuvance Health; Robert Andrzejewski, MSE, Independent Management Consultant – Pursuit of Value Analysis Best Practice: Are We There […]

Utilization Management: The Devil Is In the Details

December 6, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions The major contributor to cost is in your in-use (or consumption) cost! If you think you have nailed down all of your supply chain expenses with your GPO and […]

Purchase Cost is the Tip of the Iceberg!

May 8, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

What Happens After the Right Product, at the Right Price, at the Right Time is Delivered to the Right Person? Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions We all assume that when we buy a product, […]

Featured Articles in Latest Issue of Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine

April 19, 2018 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Featured Articles Featured Article – Gina Thomas, COO – Lumere – Value Analysis and Utilization Tools: Healthcare Can’t Afford to Not Look at Inappropriate Utilization Value Analysis Leadership Interview – Brian Shoenfeld, COO – Talon – Insights […]

It Wasn’t Raining When Noah Built His Ark

November 22, 2017 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert W. Yokl, Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions One of my company’s most popular podcasts over the past 11 years is “It Wasn’t Raining When Noah Built His Ark.” Whether you are a believer of this […]

Clinical Supply Utilization Management Isn’t a Sometime Thing

April 18, 2017 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions We congratulate the supply chain/value analysis practitioners that are attacking their utilization misalignments (i.e., the wasteful and inefficient consumption, misuse, misapplication, and value mismatches in your supply streams) when […]