SHK Partners, LLC

the demands on healthcare organizations to do more with less have never been greater. there is an influx of baby boomers into the healthcare system at a time when the cost of providing quality care is rising exponentially. these challenges are compounded by declining reimbursements from the center of medicare and medicaid services amidst increasing regulatory scrutiny, such as the health insurance portability and accountability act (hipaa) and health information technology for economic and clinical health act (arra hitech) this environment is forcing healthcare organizations to examine operations and find ways to continue providing quality patient care while significantly reducing costs. this requires identifying process inefficiencies across the entire organization and could include high labor costs, long registration times, excessive time between discharge and billing or inaccuracies in patient pre­scriptions. these processes typically involve dozens of people from multiple departmen