Let’s be honest.
Healthcare value analysis isn’t broken because of a data shortage — it’s broken because of time waste. In a world where supply chain teams are being asked to do more with less, time is the real scarcity. And every minute spent chasing down emails or updating spreadsheets is a minute lost to impact.
You don’t need another clinical database. You need control. Visibility. Adaptability.
Here are the seven best practices every Value Analysis Committee (VAC) should adopt now — not in your FY26 roadmap — to survive and thrive in today’s healthcare environment.
1. Design Your Workflow — Don’t Let Software Dictate It
Too many committees are chained to “out of the box” platforms that force clinicians, analysts, and supply chain managers to conform to rigid processes that make sense to… no one. Your tool should adapt to your world — not the other way around.
If you can think it, you should be able to build it.
That’s not marketing fluff — that’s workflow survival.
2. Stop Chasing Clinical Evidence You Already Have
Let’s kill a sacred cow: Your problem isn’t a lack of clinical data. Between your GPO, the vendor’s IFU, and FDA.gov, PubMed and other readily available sources, you have more than enough to inform most product decisions. Surgeons and clinicians are not asking you or looking for product rating systems for products they want to evaluate for themselves.
Clinical data only drives about 10% of decisions. So why are you spending 90% of your time chasing it?
Focus instead on optimizing your evaluation, approval, value and implementation workflows. That’s where the money and time are lost — or saved.
3. Visibility is Non-Negotiable
If your VAC has to dig through spreadsheets, emails, or outdated SharePoint folders to figure out project status… you’ve already lost.
You need:
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- Dashboards for real-time insight
- Drill-downs into savings
- Task-level accountability
- Alerts for missed deadlines
Visibility is how you reduce cycle times, not just track them.
4. Kill the Spreadsheet Once and for All
You wouldn’t run an OR off a clipboard — so why are you managing multi-million-dollar product decisions in Excel?
With VAMS® (Value Analysis Management Software), users have migrated from email chaos to centralized collaboration.
Spreadsheets don’t scale. Purpose-built platforms do.
5. Implementation Isn’t a Phase — It’s the Whole Game
The best project in the world is worthless if it dies in implementation purgatory.
A high-performing VAC tracks:
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- Every task
- Every due date
- Every dependency
If your software doesn’t remind your team when something’s slipping, you’re not managing — you’re hoping.
6. Prioritize Communication Above All Else
Silence is the enemy of progress. Your platform should send automated updates, notify stakeholders, and keep vendors in the loop — all without needing a full-time project manager to chase everyone.
More communication = fewer meetings = more progress.
7. Flexibility Isn’t a Feature. It’s the Strategy.
The healthcare landscape is changing weekly. New products. New stakeholders. New mandates.
If your tool requires a change order or a six-week dev cycle to tweak your workflow… you’re stuck.
DLG’s VAMS doesn’t ask if you need customization. It assumes you do — and delivers it without extra cost, complexity, or drama.
Because being locked into someone else’s idea of “how things should work” is the fastest way to kill innovation.
Final Thought:
Every VAC in America is being asked to do more with less. That’s not going to change.
The question is: will you keep trying to manage complexity with legacy tools and generic platforms?
Or will you take control of your process and make value analysis the high-performance engine it was always meant to be?
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