Rita Hanson M.D. Email & Phone Number

Milwaukee, WI, US

Verona, WI, US

Ad hoc consultant available on request to assist Epic customers with Epic implementation and /or optimization in the areas of physician engagement, tailoring build to support population health management and quality improvement goals, optimization of provider training programs.

Menasha, WI, US

Responsible for improving Risk Adjustment scores and gaps in care for the company's Medicare Advantage and Healthcare Exchange products in collaboration with Network Health and provider system leaders.

Shorewood, WI, US

Docudox Consulting is the business entity through which I provide consulting services in the areas of population health, EHR implementation and optimization, quality improvement, and physician engagement and leadership development, Docudox originally served as the vehicle for marketing and servicing SOAP Plus, an integrated comprehensive template database.

Glendale, Wisconsin, US

• Senior Vice President / System Chief Medical Officer (CMO) 2012 to 2016Responsible for hospital and ambulatory clinic quality and regulatory compliance, medical staff credentialing, privileging, and professional.
• Created and led the internal infrastructure for Population Health Management; achieved targets in majority of ACO strategic quality and utilization measures; reduced hospital admissions and emergency department visits.
• Developed a Clinical Performance Impact Index (CPII) using key measures from multiple P4P programs (VBP, HAC, HRRP, etc) to predict the future financial impact of those programs based on current quality performance.
• Led process to select Epic Enterprise as the replacement for existing EHR no longer supported by vendor; co-led the on-time and on-budget implementation of Epic Enterprise in the 7 acute care hospitals and ~45.
• All acute care hospitals and 95% of all eligible providers successfully attested for all applicable MU Stage 1 and 2 attestations; 99.8% of all payments received were retained after audit.
• Built infrastructure to effectively manage the financial tracking and regulatory requirements for industry sponsored clinical trials.

Glendale, Wisconsin, US

• Responsible for implementation of computerized provider order entry (CPOE) in all acute care hospitals, completion of in-progress implementation of Horizon Ambulatory Care (HAC) EHR in all ambulatory clinics, and.
• Completed CPOE implementation in all 10 acute care hospitals in Wisconsin and Iowa on time and on budget.
• Created and secured approval for business case to sunset inferior HAC EHR technology and replace with EpicCare Ambulatory.
• Completed implementation of EpicCare Ambulatory in all 70 ambulatory clinics in Wisconsin and Iowa on time and on budget.
• Led the build and validation of all Meaningful Use reports; communicated applicable MU expectations to all providers and associates; created MU registration and attestation infrastructure

Glendale, Wisconsin, US

• Oversight of Medical Staff credentialing and privileging, Medical Staff professional practice review, physician relations hospital quality, and the hospitalist program to assure regulatory and medico-legal compliance.
• Created effective partnership with elected medical staff leadership to evolve and maintain alignment of medical staff bylaws with regulatory requirements.
• Developed peer review process that was recognized as a best practice by the Joint Commission.
• Partnered with CNO to create a cultural transformation to meet the Joint Commission standard for managing disruptive physician behavior; recognized as a best practice by Magnet surveyors.
• Created hospitalist incentive program aligning metrics with organizational priorities to achieve process and outcomes targets in Pay 4 Performance programs such as Value-Based Purchasing, Hospital Acquired Conditions.

• Primary care internist providing patient care, and managing partner in a 9-physician service corporation.
• Led WMG’s pioneering implementation of a fully integrated electronic health record (EHR) in 1997, a point in time when <1% of physician practices in the United States had an EHR.
• Created a template documentation system within the EHR with the specific objective of driving rapid adoption and consistent delivery of evidence-based primary preventive services and chronic disease management.
• Developed the training plan and tools for onboarding providers.
• Enrolled the practice in one of the nation’s first EHR-based clinical research networks.
• Served as site leader for practice’s participation in multiple AHRQ-funded studies on Translating Research into Practice, through which the practice received 12 consecutive Best Practice awards at the annual meeting of.

2-physician internal medicine practice

Md, Medicine

Biology/Biological Sciences, General