Healthcare Value Analysis Academy How Do You Speed Up the Value Analysis Process? By Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations — SVAH Solutions
The one thing that every one of us has that is equal is the amount of time that we must spend at our jobs every day. To me, one of the most overlooked savings in the supply chain world is “time savings” when it comes to managing our value analysis process at our healthcare organizations. For anyone in the supply chain or value analysis game this is an endless loop of similar but uniquely different and highly important projects that we work on every day. To make savings and quality happen we must complete/implement more VA studies which does make it a bit of a numbers game. The more studies you can work on and complete, the more savings and quality improvements you can achieve. There are limits to how much one can do without burning out our VA Coordinators, committees/ teams, and support staff working with them. I have outlined below ways to improve that will gain back valuable time that could make a major impact on your value analysis world. •
Find a Process that Always Leads You to the Right Results – One thing I learned years ago was the classic tenets of value analysis that were taught by Larry Miles, the father of value analysis. We have tweaked, perfected, and enhanced these tenets over the years into a sound process that truly makes the value analysis process steps a no-brainer in every value analysis study (supplies, services, and technologies). Remember, value analysis is the study of function and the
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