A
Note from Robert T. Yokl,
President and Chief Value Strategist
I am sitting here a day earlier than normal on Saturday writing
my eNewsletter because it is raining today in Skippack, PA which
is delaying my normal yard work that I do on Saturdays. Yes I
like to write on my quiet Sundays but this week it is Saturday
thanks to Mother Nature.
This got me thinking about value analysis teams and how they
have the same challenge: starting, stopping and getting delayed
on their VA projects for many months. So how do you keep your VA
team’s momentum going when things have a way of sidetracking
them? We have found the best way to do so is with
VA project management software.
It gives you a vivid picture in real-time of who, what, when and
how your VA teams and individual team members are progressing
with their VA projects. If they are going off track you can see
this is happening by looking over their shoulder at their work
even if your VA team is on the other side of the state, time
zone or country.
We have found that spreadsheets or share drives can’t and won’t
give you this vital information in a timely fashion so that you
can have an intervention to get you VA team or VA team member’s
project moving again -- in the right direction. So why not make
your VA job easier by embracing the latest VA project management
technology to do all of the heavy lifting for you?
Stress-Test Your Supply Chain Operations
We have all read or heard about how ObamaCare will affect our
healthcare organization’s financial stability and operations
over the next few years. In preparation for these “winds of
change” have you stress-tested your supply chain organization to
its limits to ensure it can withstand the tsunami that is coming
our way?
A stress-test or an assessment of how your supply chain will
function under severe and unexpected pressure of ObamaCare can
help you prepare for the new healthcare’s unfavorable
reimbursement climate that is underway. Here’s some stress-test
questions (with context) that you will need to ask yourself to
prepare for this contingency.
The ObamaCare legislation will cut $500 billion dollars in
Medicare payments over 10 years. This means less revenue for
your hospital. Consequently, what is the absolute minimum
(full-time, part-time and flex-time) staffing you can live with
and still delver adequate services with an increase -- not a
decrease in volume? Where can you find even more savings (GPO
savings might not be enough for you) to offset the dip in your
hospital’s revenues. How can your suppliers help you with this
challenge?
Under ObamaCare, more surgeries, procedures, and services are
expected to be performed (40% to 60% now) on an outpatient basis
or at an alternate care site? Are you prepared for this radical
shift in supply chain logistics? Are you considering an
off-campus distribution center to lower your warehousing and
distribution cost? Or, how about outsourcing your warehouse
operations altogether? Will just-in-time still work for you in
this new healthcare environment?
These are just a handful of stress-test questions you should be
asking yourself to prepare for the new healthcare economy. As
Peter Drucker once warned, “The most serious mistakes are not
being made as a result of wrong answers. The truly dangerous
thing is asking the wrong questions.” Accordingly, since each
healthcare organization is unique by reason of their
demographics, location, and services you will need to develop
your own set of stress-test questions that are customized for
your own healthcare organization’s distinctive situation.
Remember, time isn’t on our side to do so, since the healthcare
reform train has already left the station and is racing forward
at 100 miles per hour. Don’t wait until the train has reached
your hospital, system or IDN to stress-test your supply chain
operations, or you will find that your options are becoming
smaller and smaller to avert a collision.
Warmest Regards,
Robert T. Yokl
Chief Value Strategist
Strategic Value Analysis® In Healthcare
Bobpres@strategicva.com
1-800-220-4274
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