4 Powerful Supply Chain Expense Savings Trends You Should Not Ignore
SVAH Solutions has a unique opportunity to observe supply chain expense savings trends while working with hundreds of supply chain/value…
5% More: A Small Difference in Supply Chain Savings Can Make a Big Impact on Your Healthcare Organization’s Bottom Line
As SVAH’s studies have shown, 1% to 2% in price savings in total supply budget spend are still achievable for…
Is Your Value Analysis Program Experiencing “The Dip”?
Recent surveys by SVAH have concluded that most hospitals, systems, and IDNs are experiencing what Seth Godin, noted author, writer,…
Building Collaboration Between Clinical and Supply Chain Leaders at Point of Service
The emergence of new value-based care and payment models emphasizes the importance of collaboration between the clinical and supply chain…
All of Your New Contracts Must Be More About Clinical Supply Utilization and Less About Price
A large percentage of the contracts that your hospital, system, or IDN is signing today, or will be in the…
How Do You Save Money for Your Healthcare Organization When You Have No Time, No Staff, and No Resources?
This is an age old challenge (no time, no staff, and no resources to save money) for supply chain managers.…
Supply Chain Managers Need to Focus on the Future to Make a Great Leap Forward in Savings
The healthcare marketplace is changing faster than we can say the word CHANGE due to pressures and new government regulations.…
Why Do We Believe in Some Benchmarks and Disbelieve Others?
We have been collecting, measuring, and interpreting thousands of benchmarks for over 30 years, so we feel qualified to speak…
Five Not-So-Obvious Ways to Reassess Your Healthcare Organization’s Value Analysis Program
With very few exceptions, every hospital, system, and IDN has an active value analysis program to evaluate new purchase requests,…
Here is a secret that we have been applying in our clinical supply utilization management practice for the last 10…