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What If Value Analysis Became The Front Door To Better Healthcare Decisions
Value analysis can feel like a never-ending queue of new product requests, urgent conversions, and “can’t you just get a better price” demands. But when we treat value analysis as the front end of the healthcare supply chain, it becomes something bigger: a decision system that protects patient care, strengthens standardization, and finds savings that contracting alone can’t touch.
Fred Crans is joined by Bob Yokl for a forward-looking conversation on value analysis in 2026 and beyond. We unpack why health systems are staffing more specialized value analysis roles inside periop, cardiology…
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