Healthcare Supply Chain Best Practices Podcast

Apr 11 2024 9

A Podcast for healthcare supply chain managers, value analysis professional and anyone who manages a supply budget or cost management initiatives in a healthcare organization today.

Robert T. Yokl, President & Chief Value Strategist will share (with special guests) his over 35 years of healthcare supply chain operation, consulting and training in the latest strategies in Cost Management, Cost Avoidance and Reducing Overall Supply Chain Spend While Dramatically Improving Quality and Customer Satisfaction in the Process.

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Podcast 88 - Getting Max Value Out of Sales Reps for Your Value Analysis Program

Apr 11 2024 43 mins

A Special Interview with Mark Copeland

Podcast 87 - Savings Beyond Price - You Control the Faucet

Apr 04 2024 19 mins

Let’s face it, inflation, clinical labor shortages, and market conditions are doing a number on our health systems’ bottom lines and forcing organizations to find new and better ways to eke out costs while maintaining quality and outcomes. This is easier said than done. Group purchasing organizations and your own custom contracting are readjusting to the new normal, but inflati

Podcast 86 - What Should Your Priorities Be Going Into 2024?

Jan 29 2024 19 mins

A new year will no doubt challenge many in our supply chain industry to up our game to new levels that we never thought possible. Let’s face it, there is a heck of a lot of change going on and higher demands from our Chief Financial Officers to optimize costs to mitigate the budgetary shortfalls that all health systems are seeing. All this on top of the new product requests, cont

Podcast 85 - When is the Right Time to Evaluate a Major Product or Service Category

Nov 28 2023 19 mins

Timing is everything and it does apply to the cost/value/quality world in our healthcare supply chain. In a perfect world, you would want to take the time and have your value analysis teams review all of their major product and/or service category spends and wring the towel dry on savings. But given that the average hospital purchases anywhere from 5K to 25K line items (major syste

Podcast 84 - 4 Major Dynamics of Advanced Cost Optimization

Oct 19 2023 18 mins

Cost optimization is the art and science of saving money for our healthcare organizations and, at one time, used to be fairly easy by just implementing that right group purchasing contract and garnering the savings that the contract would bring at the best tier level. This has dramatically changed in the past few years with the record inflation and market conditions all but elimina

Podcast 83 - 4 Ways to Leverage Savings Validation for Maximum Results

Sep 15 2023 17 mins

What is the point of signing a new or renewal contract with the goal of saving money if the savings do not materialize as planned? That’s what savings validation is all about. In fact, here are four ways to leverage savings validation for maximum results.

Podcast 82 - Supercharging Your Non-Salary Savings with Advanced Clinical Value Analysis Analytics

Aug 25 2023 38 mins

This podcast was a conversation with Rob Corley, Chief Growth Officer, from Impensa Advisors. Rob has previously been a VP of Supply Chain Services and Analytics for major GPOs and has a vast wealth of savings knowledge and experience in advanced non-salary (supplies & services) expenses. Our goal was to share with you the true potential of looking beyond contract price and thi

Podcast 81 - 4 of the Most Important Elements to Saving Big in Healthcare Value Analysis

Jul 31 2023 15 mins

Everyone has a degree of experience in cost management, personal and business-wise, which we bring to the table in our value analysis meetings. There is also common sense that can guide us as well, but these experiences and common sense can only get us so far in the savings game. We need to have solid mindsets, knowledge-based tools, and some clever methods in order to find the nex

Podcast 80 - Big Savings in Retrospective Value Analysis Reviews

Jun 01 2023 19 mins

We are in tough budgetary times right now with regards to expense reduction at just about every health system in the country. Increased labor costs, supply chain issues, pricing increases, and inflation are really hurting our health systems’ bottom lines. As a value analysis professional, you may ask, how do we make a big splash in the savings bucket when a good amount of our eff

Podcast 79 - Winning with a Clinically Integrated Value Analysis Process

May 15 2023 48 mins

With Suzanne Smith, Solutions Advisor, Lumere—a GHX Company, and Kerry Lepage, Clinical Nurse Leader and Director of Surgical Services at Maine Health. Suzanne and Kerry discuss how they got into healthcare supply chain and value analysis, successful strategic sourcing initiatives, the key stakeholders in value analysis, and how to gain buy-in for successful change.

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