Rich Bennema

Rich Bennema decided at age sixteen that he wanted to write code for a living. After thirty years of professional experience, that has not changed at all. Long before it became fashionable during the pandemic, Rich worked remotely full-time for over fifteen years from his basement home office in the southwest suburbs of Chicago.

At his former company, Rich was the entire esMD department for ten years. He managed, configured, developed, and supported all aspects of the project. During that time, users of the application transferred over 65 million pages of documents electronically to CMS through the secure gateway. In 2020, Rich was the first to be certified by CMS as successfully implementing the eMDR portion of the esMD program. In the first two years of eMDR, over 10 thousand audit letters were delivered electronically to users.

Rich has a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Mathematics from Wheaton College.