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There Couldn’t be a Better Time to Up Your Healthcare Value Analysis Game
By on April 26, 2012  |  Comments 0

There Couldn’t be a Better Time to Up Your Healthcare Value Analysis Game

There couldn't be a better time to up your value analysis game! Value analysis has a 35-year history of saving money in healthcare, but it has gained even more importance, credibility and momentum now that The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act has been signed into law.  This is because saving money (and making it [...]

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Breakthrough Game Changing Book is Yours for FREE!
By on May 04, 2011  |  Comments 0

Breakthrough Game Changing Book is Yours for FREE!

Healthcare Supply Utilization Revolution Become a Savings Magnet Read this book and in a few weeks save more money than you have in years. Sounds unbelievable? Robert T. Yokl and Robert W. Yokl, healthcare’s leading authorities in Supply Utilization Management, have helped hundreds of hospitals, healthcare systems and integrated delivery networks to saved close to [...]

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The Vital Importance of Controlling Your Hospital’s Supply Chain Expenses

The Vital Importance of Controlling Your Hospital’s Supply Chain Expenses

Everyone is into saving money, which is one of the prime objectives of supply chain management. However, a supply chain professional’s job shouldn’t end there. It is equally important to control your hospital’s supply chain expenses or all of your savings gains can be swept away, almost overnight, by waste and inefficiency in your supply [...]

May 21, 2013 | | Comments 0
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The Next Wave of Hospital Supply Chain Savings Opportunities

The Next Wave of Hospital Supply Chain Savings Opportunities

I can never say this too many times: If you are depending on price and standardization to keep your supply chain savings alive over the next few years, think again. These savings aren’t going to be available to you in abundance. However, I have listed below the next wave of hospital supply chain savings opportunities [...]

May 14, 2013 | | Comments 0
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The Cold Hard Facts About Supply Utilization Management

The Cold Hard Facts About Supply Utilization Management

We often talk about utilization management in these terms: If not now, when? We can make this statement because utilization management is the only savings area left in your vineyard. Not only has your low-hanging fruit been picked and standardization been substantially achieved, but now your pricing is slowly disappearing. This isn’t conjecture any longer; [...]

May 07, 2013 | | Comments 0
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Did You Know There Is A Cost of Doing Nothing?

Did You Know There Is A Cost of Doing Nothing?

One of the beliefs of psycho-economics (the study of behaviors in finance) is that losses are more important to corporations or individuals than gains. For instance, if we were negotiating a renewal contract with your hospital and we lowered your price, but then asked for our payment terms to change from 45-days to 30-days, we [...]

April 30, 2013 | | Comments 0
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How Supply Chain Leaders Are Leveraging “Big Data”

How Supply Chain Leaders Are Leveraging “Big Data”

Healthcare organizations generate a lot of “big data”, from ongoing operations, that is available to supply chain professionals to analyze if they have the right power tools, the right mindset, and the inclination to do so. You see, supply chain leaders have figured out that they can leverage their healthcare organization’s “big data” and turn [...]

April 23, 2013 | | Comments 0
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Changes, Past and Future, In Value Analysis Analytics

Changes, Past and Future, In Value Analysis Analytics

We have all heard the phrase, “In God we trust, all others bring data” which is a maxim that was coined by Edward Demming, the father of statistical quality control, to emphasize that if you follow the data it will lead you to the answers to all of your questions about cost, quality, and safety. [...]

April 16, 2013 | | Comments 0
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How the “Control Tower” Approach Can Up Your Savings Game

How the “Control Tower” Approach Can Up Your Savings Game

There is a new concept in industrial supply chain management circles called “control tower” that mimics how an air traffic controller manages hundreds of planes at one time with their radar, radio communications, and their keen observations.  Mike Landry, President of Barkawi Management Consultants, tells us that this “control tower” approach goes beyond incremental improvement [...]

April 09, 2013 | | Comments 0
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4 Things You Should Know About Supply Utilization Management

4 Things You Should Know About Supply Utilization Management

After 16 years of research, investigations, and hands-on implementation of scores of supply utilization management programs, we have identified four things you should know about supply utilization management: 1. It’s a strategy you can no longer afford to ignore: Price and standardization have been the primary supply chain cost containment strategies for decades. Now that these [...]

April 03, 2013 | | Comments 0
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The ABC’s of LifeCycle Cost Management

The ABC’s of LifeCycle Cost Management

I learned many years ago that the purchase price of a product, service or technology only amounts to about 1/20th of its lifecycle cost (or cost of ownership over its useful life). This changed my focus from price to lifecycle cost management when deciding to purchase a product, service or technology.  This is the only [...]

March 26, 2013 | | Comments 0
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3 Surefire Ways to Get Your Stalled or Rejected Value Analysis Projects Approved

3 Surefire Ways to Get Your Stalled or Rejected Value Analysis Projects Approved

How many of your value analysis projects are stalled, stuck or worse yet, are in limbo? My guess is that it could be as high as 23% to 35%, at any given time, representing tens of thousands of dollars in savings not being implemented. To avoid this bottleneck, here are three surefire ways to get [...]

March 19, 2013 | | Comments 0
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