Save Time and Money with Virtual Value Analysis Teams
Everybody’s busy, frenzied and swamped with work but this isn’t a good enough reason for not holding value analysis team meetings. It isn’t unusual for me to hear from MMs that they haven’t had a VA meeting in months, sometimes years because everyone involved in their VA process is too busy to have one. This always makes me flinch!
Think about it! VA meetings are where your customers, stakeholders and experts give their input, guidance and support for your hospital, system or IDN’s buying decisions that run into the millions, sometimes tens of million of dollars annually. Consequently, how can you eliminate, dispense with or skip these important VA meetings without risking the erosion of your credibility, saving yields and innovation?
No doubt about it everyone’s time is limited in our fast paced healthcare environment, but this doesn’t mean that you can’t carve out some quality time each month for your VA team meetings. One way to do so is with virtual value analysis team meetings that save time and money!
One of our multi-hospital facility clients has been conducting virtual value analysis team meetings for one of their VA teams for three years now, since some of their team members must drive an hour or more to attend their bi-monthly VA team meetings. They have one meeting a month face-to-face and one meeting a month that is virtual without missing a beat. In doing so, they have save hundreds of thousands of dollars in one year that would never have been captured if they decided everyone was too busy and had to drive too far to have VA team meetings.
If this client of ours can have successful virtual VA team meetings whose members are statewide, then you surely can have virtual VA team meetings right in your own facility. All you need to do is leverage the technology to do so. It’s a cheap, effective and efficient way to save time and money for everyone you need to attend your VA team meetings!
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