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Preparing Your Value Analysis Teams for the Generational Shift: Part 2

June 10, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Looking back at the last four months, how many webinars, articles, and conversations about AI have you received in your inbox? How about DEI and health equity segments through your news outlets? Clean energy and […]

Preparing Your Value Analysis Teams for the Generational Shift

February 15, 2025 Robert Yokl Comments Off

When Bob Yokl reached out to me to write this article for HCVA&UM Magazine, he challenged me to write a forward-thinking article that truly has the vision for the future of healthcare value analysis teams. […]

Why You Should Adopt a Value Analysis Policy and How to Develop One

November 21, 2023 Robert Yokl Comments Off

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 and commitment from their healthcare organization’s management team, when in […]

Enhancing Patient Experience Through Adult and Pediatric VAT Implementation

June 7, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Shonda Morrow, JD, MS, RN, CENP; Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois Kimberly Alsbrooks, BSN, RN, RT (R), VA-BC; BD, Franklin Lakes, NJ, USA Guadalupe Ordaz-Nielsen, BSN, RN, VA-BC; Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois […]

Hospital Value Analysis Team Selection

February 22, 2022 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions The Secret to High-Performance Hospital Value Analysis Teams All winning teams are a combination of attitudes, talent, and traits matched with the right leadership to give them the vision, […]

Value Analysis Teams: Team-Based Project Management Model

December 10, 2021 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions This teaming of America of the late 20th Century and now in the 21st Century becomes even more important as it relates to the evaluation, purchasing, and monitoring of […]

Value Analysis Workshops Could Be the Ticket for You

April 15, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions There is a Time and a Place for VA Workshops vs. VA Teams Value analysis practitioners are used to facilitating value analysis teams or committees to vet their supply […]

“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation…” Aristotle

May 8, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions We all have a goal for our hospital value analysis programs to be the best they can be in the eyes of our senior management and peers. Yet, too often we […]

Why Is the Right Healthcare Value Analysis Tool Important?

April 15, 2018 Robert Yokl Comments Off

When I formed my first healthcare value analysis team decades ago, there were no value analysis tools available, not even an electronic spreadsheet. Everything we used to manage our VA program (agendas, minutes, value analysis […]

Valuing the Vendor Side of Value Analysis

February 1, 2018 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert W. Yokl, Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions Having worked in the healthcare supply chain for over 25 years, I have seen how sales representatives could be viewed as the evil empire but also how they […]

Why Surgical Value Analysis is More Important than Ever Before

April 18, 2017 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert W. Yokl, Senior Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions Historically, surgical value analysis (SVA) teams focused on evaluating the newest technologies that surgeons and clinical leaders believed would improve patient outcomes for their respective procedures/cases. While this remains a […]

How is Your Value Analysis Pipeline?

April 18, 2017 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert W. Yokl, Sr. Vice President/COO, SVAH Solutions There are so many different methods, strategies, and configurations of value analysis teams/committees around the country, but there is one underlying element that every team must have in order […]

Why Your Previously Successful Value Analysis Team is Now Floundering

August 23, 2016 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Hani Elias, JD, MPH, CEO and Co-Founder of Procured Health 2016 has been a challenging year for value analysis leaders as they face the reality that value-based care is here. And more importantly, that this […]