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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 […]

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 […]

11 Ways to Fast Track Non-Salary Savings After Covid-19

April 15, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Supply Chain & Value Analysis — SVAH Solutions Since hospitals have been asked to temporarily shut down primary revenue sources of their operations, such as major elective surgeries, they […]

The HC Supply Chain’s Untouchable: The Pharmaceutical Supply Chain

April 15, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Chase Johanson, Executive Search Consultant, Gibson Consultants Pharmaceutical Costs Continue To Climb One of the most difficult challenges that hospitals and health systems all across the world face is managing their pharmaceutical spending. “Rising […]

Sell Concepts, Ideas, and Results – Not Services or Things

April 15, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions All companies tend to train their sales reps to sell services or things, when they should be training them to sell concepts, ideas, or results. The reason why this tenet […]

Are Spreadsheets Holding Back Your Value Analysis Performance?

April 15, 2020 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions It is my estimate that sixty-four percent of all hospital, system, and IDN’s value analysis practitioners (VAP) are still using paper and Excel spreadsheet systems to manage their value […]

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 […]

Just Released – Latest Issue – Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine

December 18, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Leading Cost and Quality Strategies for the Healthcare Supply Chain Read the Issue Here

Pursuit of Value Analysis Best Practice: Are We There Yet?

December 17, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Maureen Hazen-Fritsky, RN, MHA, Independent Healthcare Consultant Amy Carroll, RN, MBA, CVAHP, Nuvance Health Robert Andrzejewski, MSE, Independent Management Consultant Introduction How do we merge our value analysis processes? That was a question proposed by […]

“The Investment in Knowledge Pays the Best Interest.” Benjamin Franklin

December 6, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions Too often, I see value analysis practitioners “winging it” as opposed to investing in value analysis education so that they can understand the proper way to address a particular […]

What Are We Missing if We Are to Secure All Loose Ends in Our Supply Chain Costs?

December 6, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions I am very happy to see all sorts of focused value analysis teams in our healthcare supply chain world. Most organizations have the traditional Surgical […]

Team Member Selection and Team Building

December 6, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

Robert T. Yokl, President/CEO, SVAH Solutions “Coming together is a beginning, keeping together is progress, and working together is success.” Henry Ford All winning teams are a combination of attitudes, talents, and traits matched with […]

How Triangulating Your Supply Value Analysis Studies Destroys Speculation, Lip Service and All Other Push-Backs You Encounter

December 6, 2019 Robert Yokl Comments Off

By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions I was working with a client’s value analysis team and one of their value analysis project managers came back and reported that after further review […]