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Savings Beyond Price -Weekly eNewsletter - April 29, 2008
Robert T. Yokl
President & Chief Value Strategist
Greetings!
Is Standardization Working Against You?
I have preached for years that “standardization is a self-defeating paradigm” for healthcare organizations that want to achieve the lowest total cost for the products, services and technologies they are buying. Now, we are documenting even more proof that the overused standardization model is producing even more unintended consequences than I first thought.
The truth is no one size fits all products, services and technology purchases. If you try to standardize on everything you buy you will limit your customers’ choices, and thereby, compel them to use over-specified or under-specified supplies and equipment which don’t meet their exact specifications. Believe it or not some of the blame for this observable fact can be laid at the feet of your GPO because you are rewarded for over-standardization by the terms of their offerings.
As an illustration, we just completed a 360 Degree Supply Savings Analysis for a client where we found that they had standardized on a $7.10 I.V. set for ALL of their patients. This practice was costing this hospital $54,334 annually in unnecessary and unwanted IV set cost since this was the only IV set that was available for their clinicians to use.
A much better way to decide on what I.V. sets this client should have been buying was for them to develop customized specifications for each of their value groups (segmentation of the customers by their critical to quality requirements) that use this product. With the result, that this client would have ended up with five or six IV sets vs. one only and this would have met each of their value groups’ exact CTQ requirements thus saving $54,334 annually on their IV set purchases.
The lesson of this story is that this client did have the best price on the IV set they were buying, however their standardization policy was working against them when it came to having the lowest total cost in this commodity group. Is you standardization policy working against you as well?
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Robert T. Yokl
Robert T Yokl
Chief Value Strategist
Strategic Value Analysis® In Healthcare
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