A Blueprint for Creating Your Own Clinical Supply Utilization Management System Online Master Class
A Master Class for Unending Savings and Quality Improvements for Your Healthcare Organization
What You Will Learn with This Program (Click Tabs to View What You Will Learn)
Fast Track Your Success
Why Utilization Matters
How to Succeed with Big Data
How to Develop Your Own System
Master Benchmarking
Fast Track Your Success
There is no better way to learn than to have actual examples at your fingertips to work with!
It is great to learn the mindset, strategies, and processes for CSUM but we go a step further and provide you with actual tools in the form of spreadsheet templates, Access databases, and actual case studies. With these tools in hand you will be able to create, shape, and exceed your savings and quality improvement expectations for your supply savings and value analysis programs.
There is no better evidence than your own!
Clinical Supply Utilization Management is not a one time event, so you need tools to help you automate and control your supply utilization in the short and long term. These CSUM tools will help you:
- Find out exactly where you stand with any given category.
- Know whether you are trending favorably or unfavorably from a hospital volume centric standpoint.
- Give you powerful evidence to share with your clinicians, department heads/managers, and frontline staff.
Why Utilization Matters
Do you have all of your supply expense management bases covered?
It wasn’t so long ago that price and standardization was king in supply chain management circles. All you needed to do was join one or two GPOs and then maximize your compliance, and you were home free. Then products, services, and technologies became so complex that value analysis became in vogue in deciding the most appropriate product, service, or technology to purchase. Now, more and more supply chain professionals are acknowledging that there is a missing link in their supply expense management strategies and tactics; attacking their utilization misalignments.
At a recent AHRMM’s Executive Thought Leaders Forum, participants emphatically stated, “Even with the lowest possible price, if utilization is inappropriate the cost will remain too high.” Supply chain leaders also noted that with commodities, there is a point at which the price is as low as it can possibly be, and they must look at reducing utilization to capitalize on further savings.
How to Succeed with Big Data
Are you grinding out your big data on spreadsheets every day or is your big data working for you?
Over 65% to 85% of Value Analysis Professionals' time is spent crunching numbers for their value analysis programs. Most of this entails raw data pulls and multi-spreadsheet analysis to find the true results. The scope is only getting bigger too! To date, there are anywhere from 5,000 line items at a small hospital to over 50,000 line items at a large health system. That is an impossible amount of number crunching and even if you add many new analysts, you will more than likely barely be able to keep up month by month, quarter by quarter.
How Do We Break Through When We are Stuck in the Quicksand of Number Crunching?
The answer is to build systems that will automate, improve, and simplify the number crunching process, and most importantly, tell you:
- Where the big savings are hiding in your supply chain and how much.
- Where the past contracts or VA studies have been successful and where others need to be revisited.
- Whether you have a winning study for your VA Team as your team members now want proof before any new studies are undertaken,
How to Develop Your Own System
FACT: There is little or no more budget to be allotted for new systems or services to assist us with our number crunching.
Once upon a time, there was ample budget for supply and value analysis professionals to invest in smart tools to assist them with their analysis and reduce the number crunching load. But that time has ended and budgets are even tighter than they ever have been. So how does a supply or value analysis professional jump into new areas of savings without proven systems to get it right?
ANSWER: You can create your own in-house systems!
Yes, you can create your own Clinical Supply Utilization System to automate, improve, and streamline the supply and value analysis savings and quality improvement process. In this program, we will teach you all of the key elements that you need to develop, customize, and enhance your big data into meaningful, evidenced-based value analysis and contract analytics data.
Master Benchmarking
Hands down the best tool for saving big in the healthcare supply chain!
First and foremost, nobody wants to be compared to another organization and even worse, be told that you are weak or not up to snuff in an area that you should be or perhaps you feel you are. Yes, you have a choice. Choose to ignore the benchmark, or ask yourself why you are running high and what you can do to be the “Best Benchmark” instead of the lower comparative.
Benchmarks are as good as gold in the hands of a skilled value analysis professional!
Most supply chain organizations use benchmarking in one way or another - mostly in price benchmarks to improve their contracting programs. But with Clinical Supply Utilization Management, you can enhance your overall Total Cost of Ownership and Use of products, services, and technologies by comparing to hospital centric metrics and key performance indicators. That is the next realm of big savings, and if yours is like most healthcare organizations, there is no formal program in place, which means you will find big savings when you implement your own program. Big wins for the organization means big wins for you and your value analysis teams!
Did You Know This About Clinical Supply Utilization Management?
1. It’s the future of supply chain expense management. Price and standardization have been the primary supply chain cost containment strategies for decades. Now that these sources are waning, there is nowhere else to go for savings other than utilization management.
2. It’s a problem that’s bigger than you might think. We estimate that one in four products, services, and technologies you are buying right now has a utilization misalignment. Meaning, it is costing you, on average, 26% more to employ these commodities than it is costing your peers. Left untouched, they will cause real damage to your hospital’s bottom line.
3. It’s eating away at your healthcare organization’s bottom line. For every dollar you save in price, you could be losing $2, $3 or even $4 in utilization misalignments. For example, you might get a great price on I.V. catheters, but if your clinicians are using more than 2.3 per patient to get the job done, it’s costing you more than it should be on just this one product.
4. It’s easier to save when you know where to look. Utilization savings are different than price savings because you can’t see them with the naked eye! That’s why you need an advanced power tool to uncover these hidden savings. Then, it is very easy to eliminate them!
In a Recent Poll, Only 13% of All Health Systems Have a Formal Supply Utilization Management Program
Average Percent of Hospital Supply Categories with Utilization Overruns: 57%
Percent of Total Budget Savings from Supply Utilization Beyond Price: 17%
Healthcare Providers Only
$379 Early Bird Price. $459 After June 29th
- Live Webinar and Slide Deck Provided
- Full Webinar Replay
- Special On Demand Case Studies and Success Models
- Sample Benchmarking Spreadsheets and Clinical Supply Utilization Access Databases
Vendors, Consultants, & GPO Professionals
$465 Early Bird Price. $659 After June 29th
Frequently Asked Questions About the Master Class
What if I can only stay for 60 minutes of the 120 minute program?
Good news! We provide a webinar replay so you don't miss any key points or questions that may be asked at the end of the program. Plus, you can go back as many times as you'd like to review the program or to revisit any area after a period of time.
Why is the cost higher for vendors than providers?
Because most vendors provide services and consulting to multiple healthcare providers and will no doubt share this advanced clinical supply utilization technology with their clients. It is necessary to have an increased fee to account for the multi-healthcare provider portion of this program for vendors.
This program seems pricey for a 2-hour program. Why?
What you are going to learn in the 2-hour intensive training program is the culmination of over 18 years of work in the field of clinical supply utilization management working with systems all over the country. With that work came the successes, challenges, and yes, failures, of the systems that needed to be retooled and reworked to be successful every time.
Because of our ongoing dedication to Clinical Supply Utilization excellence, you will only have to spend 120 minutes in this program, whereas we have spent years developing these systems to make your job easier and more streamlined.
What is the big takeaway from this advanced program?
The big takeaway is that you will be able to make your job easier, more streamlined, and be able to achieve higher savings that you never imagined were there before.
Meet Your Trainers
Robert T. Yokl
President & Chief Value Officer and Publisher of Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine
Robert T. Yokl has over 50 years of experience as a Supply Chain Director, VP of Support Service, Consultant, trainer, and Software Developer in the field of supply chain management. He is one of the nation’s leading authorities in supply value analysis, value engineering, and clinical supply utilization in healthcare today. Robert has worked with over 500 hospitals and health systems throughout the country.
Robert has authored over 850 articles (and continuing every week) on every aspect of supply chain operations, value analysis, purchased services, inventory management, and clinical supply utilization. He has also authored over 13 books, white papers, and special reports such as Non-Salary Expense Reduction in Hospitals and The Ultimate Value Analysis Program.
His articles are regularly published in Healthcare Purchasing News, Hospital Material Management, Value World, Material Management Magazine, Healthcare Supervisor, Hospital News, Aspen’s Material Management Quarterly, Healthcare Cost Reengineering, Contemporary Long-Term Care, Vitalines, Journal of Resource Management, and Mid-Atlantic Purchasing Magazine.
Robert W. Yokl
Vice President of Operations & Editor of Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine
Robert W. Yokl, Sr. VP, Operations, has over 25 years of experience in the healthcare supply chain. Robert leads the SVAH Solutions team in day to day operations on various clinical supply utilization, value analysis, and supply validation solutions. Robert has worked with over 350 hospitals, IDNs, and health systems throughout his career and has engaged in value analysis and supply utilization at every level of a healthcare organization.
Robert is the Co-Author of Healthcare Supply Utilization Revolution – The Future of Supply Chain Management and the Managing Editor and continuing article contributor for Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine. He is also the chief software architect for SVAH with many value analysis, benchmarking, supply utilization, supply validation, and purchased services solutions in production.
The Deliverables
Webinar Replay
Clinical Supply Utilization Access Database Template
This is an advanced tool that you can use to automate your Clinical Supply Utilization System on an ongoing basis. This will help you funnel the big data down into the meaningful data streams that you will report on.
Webinar Slide Deck
Case Study Webinar On Demand – Oxisensors
This is part of our Value Analysis SMART Success Models which incorporate all of the best practices of Value Analysis, CSUM, and Non-Salary Expense Reduction
Clinical Supply Utilization Spreadsheet Template
This is a tool that you can use every day to track your clinical supply utilization in a straight forward yet highly effective system to allow you to easily ascertain where your big savings opportunities are hiding.
Case Study Webinar On Demand – Tissue Sealants
This is part of our Value Analysis SMART Success Models which incorporate all of the best practices of Value Analysis, CSUM, and Non-Salary Expense Reduction
Not Quite Sure Yet?
Why not visit our contact page. We would love to chat with you! Send us your questions about this program before or after you sign up!
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A Blueprint for Creating Your Own Clinical Supply Utilization Management System On-Line Masters Class
A Master Class for Unending Savings and Quality Improvements for Your Healthcare Organization
What You Will Learn with this Program (Click Tabs to View What You Will Learn)
Fast Track Your Success
Why Utilization Matters
How to Succeed with Big Data
How to Develop Your Own System
Master Benchmarking
Fast Track Your Success
There is no other better way to learn than to have actual examples at your fingertips to work with!
It is great to learn the mindset, strategies and processes for CSUM but we go a step further and provide you with actual tools in the form of spreadsheet templates, access databases and actual case studies. With these tools in hand you will be able to create, shape and exceed your savings and quality improvement expectations for your supply savings and value analysis programs.
There is no better evidence than your own!
Clinical Supply Utilization Management is not a one time event, so you need tools to help you automate and control your supply utilization in the short and long term. These CSUM tools will help you:
- Find out exactly where you stand with any given category
- Know whether you are trending favorably or unfavorably from a hospital volume centric standpoint
- Give you powerful evidence to share with your clinicians, department heads/managers and frontline staff.
Why Utilization Matters
Do you have all of your supply expense management bases covered?
It wasn’t so long ago that price and standardization was king in supply chain management circles. All you needed to do was join one or two GPO’s and then maximize your compliance, and you where home free. Then products, services, and technologies became so complex that value analysis became in vogue to decide what was the most appropriate product, service or technology to purchase. Now, more and more supply chain professionals are acknowledging that there is a missing link in their supply expense management strategies and tactics; attacking their utilization misalignments.
At a recent AHRMM’s Executive Thought Leaders Forum, participants emphatically stated, “Even with the lowest possible price, if utilization is inappropriate the cost will remain too high.” Supply chain leaders also noted that with commodities, there is a point at which the price is as low as it can possibly be, and they must look at reducing utilization to capitalize on further savings.
How to Succeed with Big Data
Are you grinding out your big data on spreadsheets everyday or is your big data working for you?
Over 65% to 85% of Value Analysis Professionals time is spend crunching numbers for their value analysis programs and most of this entails raw data pulls and multi-spreadsheet analysis to find the true results. The scope is only getting bigger too! To date, there is anywhere from 5,000 line items at a small hospital to over 50,000 line items at a large health system. That is an impossible amount of number crunching and even if you add many new analysts, you will more than likely barely be able to keep up, month by month, quarter by quarter.
How Do We Break Through When We are Stuck in the Quicksand of Number Crunching?
The answer is to build systems that will automate, improve and simplify the number crunching process and most importantly tell you:
- Where the big savings is hiding in your supply chain and how much
- Where the past contracts or VA studies have been successful and where others need to be revisited
- Whether you have a winning study for your VA Team as your team members now want proof before any new studies are undertaken
How to Develop Your Own System
FACT: There is little or no more budget to be allotted for new systems or services to assist us with our number crunching.
Once upon a time there was ample budget for supply and value analysis professionals to invest in smart tools to assist them with their analysis and reduce the number crunching load. But that time has ended and budgets are even tighter than they ever have been. So how does a supply or value analysis professional jump into a new areas of savings with ton's of potential without proven systems to get it right?
ANSWER: You Can Create Your Own In-House Systems!
Yes you can create your own Clinical Supply Utilization System to automate, improve and streamline the supply and value analysis savings and quality improvement process. In this program we will teach you all of the key elements that you need to develop, customize and enhance your big data into meaningful evidenced based value analysis and contract analytics data.
Master Benchmarking
Hands Down the Best Tool for Saving Big in the Healthcare Supply Chain!
First and foremost, nobody wants to be compared to another organization and even worse, be told that you are weak or not up to snuff in an area that you should be or perhaps you feel you are. Yes, you have a choice, choose to ignore the benchmark or try to ask, why is this, why are we running high and what can we do to be the “Best Benchmark” instead of the lower comparative?
Benchmarks are as good as gold in the hands of a skilled value analysis professional!
Most supply chain organizations use benchmarking in one way or another, mostly in Price benchmarks to improve their contracting programs. But with Clinical Supply Utilization Management, you can enhance your overall Total Cost of Ownership and Use of products, services and technologies by comparing to hospital centric metrics and key performance indicators. That is the next realm of big savings and if yours is like most healthcare organizations there is no formal program in place, which means you will find big savings when you implement your own program. Big wins for the organization means big wins for you and your value analysis teams!
Did You Know This about Clinical Supply Utilization Management?
1. It’s the future of supply chain expense management. Price and standardization have been the primary supply chain cost containment strategies for decades. Now that these sources are waning, there is nowhere else to go for savings other than utilization management.
2. It’s a problem that’s bigger than you might think. We estimate that one in four products, services, and technologies you are buying right now has a utilization misalignment. Meaning, it is costing you on average 26% more to employ these commodities than it is costing your peers. Left untouched, they will cause real damage to your hospital’s bottom line.
3. It’s eating away at your healthcare organization’s bottom line. For every dollar you save in price, you could be losing $2, $3 or even $4 in utilization misalignments. For example, you might get a great price on I.V. catheters, but if your clinicians are using more than 2.3 per patient to get the job done, it’s costing you more than it should be on just this one product.
4. It’s easier to save when you know where to look. Utilization savings are different than price savings because you can’t see them with the naked eye! That’s why you need an advanced power tool to uncover these hidden savings. Then, it is very easy to eliminate them!
In a Recent Poll, only 13% of All Health Systems Have a Formal Supply Utilization Management Program
13%
Average Percent of Hospital Supply Categories with Utilization Overruns
57%
Percent of Total Budget Savings from Supply Utilization Beyond Price
17%
Live 2- Hour Program – Thursday July 19th at 1pm Eastern Time Zone
Healthcare Provider Only
$379 Early Bird Price $459 After June29th
- Live Webinar and Slide Deck Provided
- Full Webinar Replay
- Special On Demand Case Studies and Success Models
- Sample Benchmarking Spreadsheets and Clinical Supply Utilization Access Databases
Vendors, Consultants & GPO Professionals
$465 Early Bird Price $659 After June 29th
- Live Webinar and Slide Deck Provided
- Full Webinar Replay
- Special On Demand Case Studies and Success Models
- Sample Benchmarking Spreadsheets and Clinical Supply Utilization Access Databases
Frequently Asked Questions About the Masterclass
Have Questions, Click on the Question Below to See What the Answer is
What If I Can Only Stay for 60 Minutes of the 120 Minute Program?
Good news is we provide a webinar replay so don't miss any key points or questions that may be asked at the end of the program. Plus you can go back as many times as you like to review the program or to revisit any area after a period of time.
Why is the Cost Higher for Vendors Than Providers?
Because most vendors provide services and consulting to multiple healthcare providers and will no doubt share this advanced clinical supply utilization technology with their clients. It is necessary to have an increased fee to account for the multi-healthcare provider portion of this programs for vendors.
This Program Seems Pricey for a 2-Hour Program, Why?
What you are going to learn in the 2-hour intensive training program is the culmination of over 18 years of work in the field of clinical supply utilization management working with systems all over the country. With that work came the successes and the challenges and yes failures of the systems that needed to retooled and reworked to be successful every time.
Because of our ongoing dedication to Clinical Supply Utilization excellence you will only have to spend 90-minutes in a webinar whereas we have spend years developing these systems to make your job easier and more streamlined.
What is the Big Takeaway from this Advanced Program?
The big takeaway is that you will be able to make your job easier, more streamlined and be able to higher value in savings that you never imagined were there before.
Will There Be Time To Ask Questions at the End of the Program?
Due to the packed agenda for this program there may only be about 10-15 minutes to answer your questions but we will make provisions for you to call us or to contact us via email after the program.
Your Trainers for This Master Class Training Program
Robert W. Yokl
Vice President of Operations & Editor of Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine
Robert W. Yokl, is the Sr. VP, Operations, with over 25 years of experience in the healthcare supply chain. Robert leads the SVAH Solutions team in day to day operations on various clinical supply utilization, value analysis and supply validation solutions. Robert has worked with over 350 hospitals, IDNs and Health Systems throughout his career and has engaged in value analysis and supply utilization at ever level of a healthcare organization.
Robert is the Co-Author of Healthcare Supply Utilization Revolution – The Future of Supply Chain Management and the Managing Editor and continuing article contributor for Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine since 2012. He is also the chief software architect for SVAH with many value analysis, benchmarking, supply utilization, supply validation and purchase services solutions in production.
Robert T. Yokl
President & Chief Value Strategist of Healthcare Value Analysis & Utilization Management Magazine
Robert T. Yokl who has over 50 years experience as a Supply Chain Director, VP of Support Service, Consultant, trainer and Software Developer in the field of supply chain management. He is one of the nation’s leading authority in supply value analysis, value engineering and clinical supply utilization in healthcare today. Robert has worked with over 500 hospitals and health systems throughout the country.
Robert has authored over 850 articles (and continuing every week) on every aspect of supply chain operations, value analysis, purchase services, inventory management and clinical supply utilization. He has also authored over 13 books, white papers and special reports on areas such as Non-Salary Expense Reduction in Hospitals to the Ultimate Value Analysis Program.
His articles are regularly published in Healthcare Purchasing News, Hospital Material Management, Value World, Material Management Magazine, Healthcare Supervisor, Hospital News, Aspen’s Materiel Management Quarterly, Healthcare Cost Reengineering, Contemporary Long-Term Care, Vitalines, Journal of Resource Management and Mid-Atlantic Purchasing Magazine.
What Are the Deliverables
Webinar Replay
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Clinical Supply Utilization Access Database Template
This is an advanced tool that you can use to automate your Clinical Supply Utilization System on an ongoing basis. This will hope you funnel the big data down into the meaningful data streams that you will report on
Webinar Slide Deck
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Case Study Webinar On Demand – Oxisensors
This is part of of our Value Analysis SMART Success Models which incorporates all of the best practices of Value Analysis, CSUM and Non-Salary Expense Reduction
Clinical Supply Utilization Spreadsheet Template
This is a tool that you can use everyday to track your clinical supply utilization in a straight forward yet highly effective system to allow you to easily ascertain where your big savings opportunities are hiding
Case Study Webinar On Demand – Tissue Sealants
This is part of of our Value Analysis SMART Success Models which incorporates all of the best practices of Value Analysis, CSUM and Non-Salary Expense Reduction
Not quite sure yet?
Why not visit our contact page, we would love to chat with you! Send us your questions about this program before or after you sign up!