Value Analysis Leadership Interview: Leading by Example
“Today’s value analysis committees must be prepared to look beyond price parity, product utilization, and supply standardization on to clinical practice variation and facility contribution…
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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…
Savings Beyond Price – You Control the Faucet with Consumption Management
“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…
Value Analysis is Not Just About Value Analysis
Most seasoned value analysis professionals have come to the realization that value analysis is not just about value analysis in our healthcare systems. Value analysis…
Unlocking the Power of Value Analysis with Artificial Intelligence
“One of the biggest advantages of AI for value analysis practitioners, as I see it, is AI’s ability to automatically sift through vast data, create…
Value Analysis Professionals: What Should Your Priorities Be Going Into 2024?
If you are a healthcare value analysis professional, what should your priorities be going into the new year? A new year is just around the…
Enhancing Your Contracting Strategy
“In the evolving healthcare landscape, incorporating clinical product utilization into the contracting strategy can uncover significant savings.” The contract cycle is a familiar space for…
Value Analysis Advisor for Sales Reps: How to Develop an Effective Sales Mindset
Having a strong sales mindset is crucial for success in the competitive world of healthcare sales. It’s not just about having the right skills and…
Is PPI Standardization the Answer to More Savings?
I just read an article in one of our industry’s leading supply chain publications touting the benefits of the standardization of physician preference items (PPI)…
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…
Are You Ready to Join an Elite Group of Value Analysis Professionals?
The Association of Healthcare Value Analysis Professionals (AHVAP) has come a long way from it’s grassroots start in the healthcare supply chain world. Started by…
Value Analysis Roundtable Discussion: Clinical Supply Utilization Opening Up Invisible Supply and Quality Optimization Opportunities
We are all looking for new supply chain expense savings beyond price and standardization to help our healthcare organizations weather this perfect storm (high inflation,…
AI And Value Analysis: A Natural Fit
“AI will be one of the answers for value analysis practitioners to save time while improving savings, quality, and outcomes because it enables the execution…