DH&S: providing a broad array of services to healthcare. Interview by Bill W. Childs

Deloitte Haskins & Sells (DH&S) is an international professional services firm employing more than 8,700 accountants and consultants in the United States in more than 100 offices. Worldwide, the firm serves clients through a network of 400 offices in 70 countries and employs nearly 26,000 people. DH&S has the reputation of providing high quality services to organizations in all major segments of the economy, including healthcare organizations. Healthcare is one of the firm's primary specialties which has seen rapid growth in the past five years, making it DH&S' fastest growing industry group. And, according to Mike Engelhart, the National Industry director for DH&S' Health Care Services, the firm sincerely believes that the commitments it has made, and continues to make, in providing a broad array of specialized services for the healthcare industry gives those organizations "the competitive edge in healthcare." Recently, U.S. Healthcare Editor/Publisher Bill W. Childs had the opportunity to interview Engelhart and Raeford Bell, who directs DH&S' Health Care Information Systems Practice.