Improvement Strategies for Your Value Analysis Program for 2025 and Beyond
I often hear Value Analysis and Supply Chain professionals talk about how “mature” their VA/Supply Chain programs are. This is great to know but I am…
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Hospital Supply Chain Professionals: Keep the Faith!
“These are just a few ideas for when you and your team are feeling the pinch of the everyday pressures of the hospital supply chain/value…
Four Keys to Running Your Healthcare Organization’s Value Analysis Program
Everyone wants to run their own Value Analysis Program. It should be a goal for every value analysis professional who aspires to be successful in…
Automate to Innovate Your Value Analysis Program
Most value analysis programs have a different level of maturity when it comes to automation. Too often, the use of spreadsheets is a substitute for…
Why You Should Adopt a Value Analysis Policy and How to Develop One
Value Analysis Policy is Necessary to Clearly Define VA’s Role in Your Healthcare Organization Too often, value analysis practitioners assume that they have the support…
Value Analysis Professionals: Our Time is Now…Are You Ready?
“There has never been a more perfect time for supply chain and value analysis professionals to fully engage in cost reduction.” If you are looking…
Big Savings in Retrospective Value Analysis Reviews
“The bottom line here is that retrospective value analysis reviews are valuable to healthcare organizations who are in dire need of big savings which will…
How Do You Make Your Clinical Value Analysis Program Even Better in 2023?
As we begin a new year, it is good to take a step back and take a good look in the mirror at your value…
Healthcare Value Analysis: Steps for Achieving Better Results
There are many different iterations that value analysis has morphed, evolved, and emerged into leading up to 2022. Value analysis is predominantly applied to products,…
Is Your Healthcare Organization Really Practicing Value Analysis?
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions Our surveys show that only 1 in 10 healthcare organizations is really practicing the classic tenets of value analysis…
Back to Basics – Forward to Big Savings
By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions As the major league baseball season has just wrapped up their Spring Training and started…
How Much Are You Saving With Your Value Analysis Program?
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions The established purpose of value analysis, created by Larry Miles in the 1940s at GE, was to look for…
Featured Articles November 2020 – Healthcare VA & SUM Magazine
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…