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Yokl: How to Answer the Critics of Good Savings Ideas
In the following column, Robert T. Yokl , Chief Value Strategist, Strategic Value Analysis® in Healthcare, addresses how you should respond to critics who want…
A word on ACOs
Actually, how about an entire magazine? Accountable Care Organizations are a hot topic in health care. To help answer your questions, we’ve developed a magazine…
Yokl: Negotiate for Value and Everyone Wins
As your price savings dip, as inflation raises its ugly head again, you will want to keep your savings rolling in with new and better…
Healthcare Leadership with Dan Nielsen — Employee Relations in a Down Economy
Lessons Learned from Greenville Hospital System Doug Dorman, Vice President of Human Resources at Greenville Hospital System in Greenville, S.C., was the discussion leader for…
Robert Yokl on Conflicts of Interest
A recent Carnegie Mellon University study found that doctors see the gifts (pens, free lunches, equipment, consulting fees and honorariums, etc.) they have been receiving…
MedAssets and Broadlane: What they’re saying
We’ll have more in the October issue of The Journal of Healthcare Contracting, but here are some quotables from the news that MedAssets will acquire…
Robert Yokl — Price increases don’t automatically mean costs go up too
I just read that Novation is predicting an inflation rate rise of 3.1 percent on healthcare products in the next six months, which incidentally is…
Healthcare Leadership with Dan Nielsen
The following is the first of a regular Healthcare Leadership blog by Dan Nielsen, Founder of the National Institute for Healthcare Leadership. Nielsen will provide…
Changing the Purchasing Focus—Bring Me Some Water, Please!
The following is by Fred Crans, Area Vice President, North & West, ECRI Institute Changing the Purchasing Focus—Bring Me Some Water, Please! In the…