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…
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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…
You Need Champions for Your Value Analysis Program to Excel
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions Robert McNamara, Secretary of Defense in the 1960s, was a champion (i.e., spoke up in favor of and supported…
Value Analysis Leadership Interview – Matthew Rutberg— Program Manager, Value Analysis – Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP)
(VAMag) Could you tell us a little bit about your professional history and how you got into value analysis? Matt: I have been with CHOP…
One of the Most Powerful Tools for Value Analysis is Strategic Planning
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions “Nothing is more terrible than activity without insight.” This quote by Scottish Philosopher, Thomas Carlyle, is at the core…
Featured Articles from Latest Issue of Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine
FEATURED ARTICLE – That Which We Call Evidence – By James Russell, RN-BC, MBA, CVAHP, Value Analysis Program Director, University of Wisconsin Health Value Analysis Leadership Interview…
Where Does Evidence Fit Into Your Value Analysis Process?
Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions First, I hope all of our readers have a set value analysis process (i.e., defined number of steps to be…