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Supply Utilization Revolution

Healthcare Value Analysis & Cost Optimization Best Practices

July 13, 2023

Let’s Get Serious About Outsourcing

June 1, 2023

How Does Your Healthcare Supply Chain Measure Up?

May 25, 2023

Using ROIs To Get More Of Your Healthcare Value Analysis Projects Approved

September 29, 2022

Hospital Value Analysis Customer Surveys: To Survey or Not To Survey

September 28, 2022

Healthcare Supply Chain: Moving Up to the C-Suite

June 9, 2022

Hospital Value Analysis: Missing Success Elements

June 2, 2022

Why Your Hospital’s Reported Supply Savings Frequently Vanish

May 26, 2022

Healthcare Value Analysis: The Best Formula for Good Questions

May 12, 2022

Hospital Supply Chain Evolution: Transform to Thrive and Survive

May 7, 2022

Healthcare Supply Chain Cost Drivers

April 29, 2022

Accelerating Your Cost Management Transformation Is Now Mission Critical

April 21, 2022

Hospital Supply Chain Proliferation Disease

April 8, 2022

Healthcare Reform and Value Analysis

March 31, 2022

Healthcare Supply Chain and Finance Department Alignment

March 24, 2022

Hospital Value Analysis Teams for Capital Equipment

March 17, 2022

Supplier Site Visits

March 10, 2022

Healthcare Supply Chain Professionals: Document Your Value to Your Senior Management

March 3, 2022

Healthcare Supply Chain Strategic Planning

February 21, 2022

Healthcare Value Analysis Projects You Should Fast-Track

February 11, 2022

Optimize Your Hospital Value Analysis Program with Value Analysis Analytics

January 31, 2022

Purchased Service Pitfalls To Avoid

January 27, 2022

Comparative Healthcare Value Analysis Analytics

January 24, 2022

Select Your Hospital Value Analysis Team Members To Ensure Success

January 20, 2022

Healthcare Value Analysis: Your Data Needs To Tell A Story To Be Convincing

January 17, 2022

Healthcare Value Analysis Suppliers and Partners

January 13, 2022

Healthcare Value Analysis: Brainstorming Myths and Missed Opportunities

January 10, 2022

Hospital Supply Chain Benchmarking Tours

January 6, 2022

Using Hospital Value Analysis Analytics to Improve Your Batting Average

January 3, 2022

Hospital Value Analysis by the Numbers

December 30, 2021

#1 Ingredient to Improve Your Hospital’s Value Analysis Team’s Performance

December 27, 2021

Hospital Value Analysis: How to Make a Case for Positive Change

December 23, 2021

Hospital Supply Chain Professionals: How to Change Your Physician’s Attitude

December 20, 2021

The Changing Role of Hospital Supply Chain Expense Management

December 16, 2021

Hospital Value Analysis Means More Than Price Shopping

December 13, 2021

The Vital Importance of Controlling Your Hospital’s Supply Chain Expenses

December 9, 2021

Hospital Supply Chain: The Next Wave of Savings Opportunities

December 6, 2021

Hospital Supply Utilization Management: The Cold Hard Facts

December 2, 2021

Lifecycle Cost Management in Healthcare Value Analysis

November 29, 2021

3 Ways to Get Your Healthcare Value Analysis Projects Approved

November 22, 2021

3 Short Cuts in Hospital Value Analysis

November 18, 2021

Hospital Value Analysis: Think Inside the Box

November 15, 2021

Hospital Value Analysis: Do You Have A System?

November 11, 2021

MYTH: Benchmarking Won’t Work For Me Because My Hospital Is Different

November 8, 2021

The Quest for New Hospital Supply Chain Savings

November 4, 2021

Competitive Intelligence: What You Don’t Know Can Hurt Your Healthcare Supply Chain

November 1, 2021

How to Prevent and/or Eliminate Waste and Inefficiency with Healthcare Value Analysis

October 28, 2021

Listen to the Data if You Want to Lead and Innovate in Your Hospital Supply Chain Business

October 25, 2021

Dive Deep Into Your Hospital’s Supply Chain Expenses With Value Analysis Analytics

October 21, 2021

Hospital Value Analysis: The Cost of Doing Nothing

October 18, 2021

How Healthcare Supply Chain Leaders Are Leveraging Big Data

October 11, 2021

4 Things You Should Know About Hospital Supply Utilization Management

October 7, 2021

5 Hospital Value Analysis Best Practices

October 5, 2021

3 New Strategies To Uncover Additional Supply Chain Savings – October-November 2021 – Savings Now Newsletter

October 4, 2021

The Physician’s Role in Hospital Supply Utilization Management

September 30, 2021

What’s Working in Hospital Supply Expense Management

September 27, 2021

How to Best Utilize Your Hospital’s Limited Supply Chain Resources

September 23, 2021

Three Proven Tips to Lowering Your Hospital’s Purchased Service Contract Cost

September 20, 2021

Planning to Win in the Hospital Supply Chain Game

September 16, 2021

3 Rules for Hospital Value Analysis Team Peak Performance

September 13, 2021

Drive Your Hospital’s Supply Expense Savings Higher Without Leaving Your Desk

September 10, 2021

Building Your Hospital’s Supply Chain Infrastructure to Save Big

August 30, 2021

Does Your Hospital’s Culture Matter in Cost Management?

August 25, 2021

Execute Takeaways in Hospital Value Analysis

August 23, 2021

Are You Reporting Your Hospital Supply Chain Successes to Your Boss?

August 18, 2021

Extreme Makeover: Demystifying Hospital Supply Utilization Management

August 17, 2021

Strategic Healthcare Value Analysis Plan

August 16, 2021

Hospital Supply Chain Project Cycle Time

August 13, 2021

Control Plan: A Hospital Value Analysis Imperative

August 11, 2021

Healthcare Value Analysis: A Never-Ending Yet Rewarding Job

August 6, 2021

Employing Healthcare Value Analysis Analytics to Get Your Way

August 5, 2021

Bridging The Supply Utilization Gap With Your Healthcare Value Analysis Program August-September 2021-Savings Now Newsletter

August 3, 2021

Healthcare Value Analysis: Diagnose Before You Prescribe A Solution

July 29, 2021

Hospital Supply Chain Benchmarking

July 27, 2021

Supplier Relationship Management: What Do Your Suppliers Think of You?

July 26, 2021

Hospital Value Analysis Analytics

July 23, 2021

Holes to Plug in Healthcare Supply Expense Management

July 22, 2021

Find Objection Busters for Your Hospital Value Analysis Team

July 21, 2021

Does Your Hospital Have the Right Decision Support Tools?

July 21, 2021

Who’s in Charge of Your Hospital’s Purchased Service Contracts?

July 19, 2021

Organizing for Efficiency of Your Hospital’s Supply Chain Expense Management

July 16, 2021

The X-Factor: Hospital Value Analysis Teams

July 15, 2021

Supply Business Intelligence: A Hospital Supply Chain Imperative

July 14, 2021

Hospital Inventory Management: Is One Indicator Enough?

July 12, 2021

Driving Your Hospital’s Supply Chain from a Dashboard

July 12, 2021

What Healthcare Value Analysis Leaders Need to Know About Value Analysis

July 12, 2021

Future-of-Healthcare-Supply-Chain-Expense-Management-July-Aug2021-Savings-Now-Newsletter

July 9, 2021

5 Steps to Making Your Healthcare Value Analysis Studies Easier

July 8, 2021

Sherlock Holmes Knew How to Be a Great Hospital Value Analysis Strategist

July 7, 2021

A Crash Course in Hospital Supply Utilization Management

July 6, 2021

The Best Defense in the Hospital Supply Chain Business is a Good Offense

July 6, 2021

The Missing Success Element in Your Hospital’s Value Analysis Team’s Performance

July 2, 2021

What’s the Most Powerful Tool in Your Healthcare Value Analysis Arsenal?

July 1, 2021

Why Hospital Supply Chain Managers Need to Lead by Example

June 30, 2021

Why Most Hospital Supply Chain Professionals Are Deceiving Themselves

June 28, 2021

Why Hospital Supply Chain Managers Need to Say “No” More Often!

June 25, 2021

How to Stay Ahead of the Healthcare Supply Chain Savings Game

June 25, 2021

Strategies to a Sustainable Healthcare Supply Chain Savings Pipeline

June 24, 2021

Healthcare Supply Chain Leaders Aren’t Lone Rangers

June 24, 2021

What Happens When You Run Out of Price Savings for Your Hospital?

June 23, 2021

Best Healthcare Supply Benchmarking Process Technique

June 23, 2021

Beyond The Data: New Thinking About Healthcare Supply Chain Success

June 22, 2021

Six Key Characteristics of an Effective Hospital Value Analysis Team

June 21, 2021

Outsourcing or Insourcing for Your Healthcare Organization?

June 18, 2021

How to Measure Your Hospital’s Value Analysis Team’s Success

June 18, 2021

How to Effectively Communicate the Value of Value Analysis at Your Hospital

June 17, 2021

4 Key Questions That Test the Effectiveness of Your Hospital’s Value Analysis Teams

June 14, 2021

Healthcare Supply Chain Power Tools: Don’t Ignore Them!

June 10, 2021

3 Ways to Avoid Playing “Small Ball” With Your Hospital’s Supply Chain Expenses

June 1, 2021

If You Waste Less, You Save More!

May 28, 2021

The Roles of Hospital Supply Chain Managers in Value Analysis

May 28, 2021

How Important is Price in the Healthcare Value Analysis Equation?

March 13, 2021

5 Key Requirements You Must Have In All Of Your Purchased Service Contracts-March-April 2021 Savings Now Newsletter

January 13, 2021

3 Things You Must Know About Your GPO’s Price Savings To Make Them Stick-January-February 2021 Savings Now Newsletter

November 14, 2020

Manage Your Multi-Million Dollar Hospital Purchased Service Spend by Focusing on Contract Utilization – Nov-Dec 2020 – Savings Now Newsletter

September 15, 2020

Why Reducing Waste Can Optimize Your Hospital Supply Chain Expenses Almost Overnight – September-October 2020 – Savings Now Newsletter

February 4, 2020

Healthcare Value Analysis Evolution: The Commitment to Excellence

January 16, 2020

How to Evaluate Your Hospital Supply Utilization Management Strategy for 2020 and Beyond – January-February 2020 – Savings Now Newsletter

October 8, 2019

4 Ways Value Analysis Analytics Can Help Supply Chain Professionals Make a Difference

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