The 7 Most Dangerous Myths About Healthcare Supply Chain Price Savings
GET YOUR FREE GUIDE TODAY! We too believed, for many years, the dangerous myth that price savings would be here forevermore, then we realized that the “law of diminishing returns” (a point in time when the return on your efforts drop off dramatically and precipitously) would kick in when the healthcare marketplace matured. Well, that’s [...]
How to Save 10%, 20% or Even 30% on Your Supply Chain Expenses
As I see it, supply chain managers will be called on to save more than their usual 3% to 5% on their supply chain expenses each and every year. This will become a reality due to the drastic reductions, over the next few years, in your hospital’s Medicare and Medicare reimbursement. Here’s a game plan [...]
Utilization Management: If Not Now, When?
I can’t tell you how many times I hear from supply chain professionals who have utilization management on their radar screen, but they have other initiatives they are working on (e.g. new MMIS installation, data cleansing initiative, regional GPO formation, etc.) that are taking precedence. Then six months or a year goes by and these [...]
The Power of Value Analysis Analytics
There is a lot of confusion over the terms benchmarks vs. value analysis analytics. I would like to clarify these terms since while benchmarks are important they don’t tell the whole story, while value analysis analytics does. First off, benchmarks are a standard against something that can be measure and assessed. They can be used [...]
Three “Must Have” Supply Chain Survival Tools
Supply chain management is becoming an even more complex and ever-changing discipline, since it is at the forefront of cost management efforts in any and all healthcare organizations today. If hospitals, systems and IDNs can’t hold the line on their supply expenses to below the annual inflation rate, for any given year, they won’t be [...]
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 [...]
