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Bob Hanscom, Strategic Advisor at the I-PASS Institute, collaborates with the I-PASS leadership team to develop and deliver strategies to champion patient safety and reduce medical malpractice rates at healthcare institutions across the country. Bob brings nearly 30 years of experience in hospital risk management, with a specific focus in healthcare analytics claims data. He retired from his role as Vice President of Risk Management and Analytics at Coverys in September 2022. During Bob’s nine-year tenure at Coverys, he oversaw the company’s national risk management services, and led enterprise-wide initiatives to strengthen Coverys as a data-and-analytics driven organization. Included in those efforts was the development of Coverys’ comparative benchmarking database, which now houses the root-cause factors of approximately 30,000 deeply analyzed malpractice claims. His work has led to a proactive risk management model which focuses on using the evidence to find solutions before harm reaches the patient – rather than after. Prior to joining Coverys, Bob was with CRICO, the malpractice self-insurance captive for the Harvard system, for 14 years. At CRICO, he was Senior Vice President of Loss Prevention and Patient Safety and headed up CRICO’s external consulting division, CRICO Strategies. Before that, Bob was Vice President of Clinical Services at Lahey Clinic in Burlington, MA for five years. Earlier in his career, Bob worked for both Massachusetts General Hospital and for a law practice in Maine. Bob received his B.A. in History from Pacific Union College (California) and his Juris Doctorate from Pepperdine University School of Law.