Todd Olson

About Todd Olson

Therapy teams are expected to be clinically excellent, operationally efficient, and documentation-ready from day one—but most are not trained for the realities of modern healthcare delivery. The gap between education, clinical expectations, and real-world performance creates friction, inefficiency, and risk.I help therapy organizations close that gap.I’m an Occupational Therapist with experience across the acute and post-acute continuum, focused on clinical readiness, documentation accuracy, regulatory compliance, and therapy outcomes.I combine active clinical practice with a decade in therapy-focused technology and education—spanning EMR implementation and optimization, workflow design, documentation efficiency, and LMS-driven training programs. I continue treating patients to stay grounded in real-world clinical demands, ensuring the strategies I design are practical, relevant, and immediately applicable at the point of care.My work centers on preparing clinicians and organizations to perform effectively in real environments—aligning clinical reasoning, documentation, workflows, and operational expectations.I’ve led enterprise EMR implementations, optimized therapy workflows, and designed large-scale clinical education and onboarding programs that improve clinician readiness, time-to-productivity, and performance outcomes—without increasing documentation burden.I also design and deliver education in documentation, evaluations, dementia care, falls and balance, compliance, and objective tests & measures, through live training, webinars, interactive modules, and enterprise onboarding programs.What I help organizations achieve:• Clinicians who are prepared for real-world practice from day one• More impactful, efficient care through strong clinical reasoning• Cleaner, defensible clinical documentation• Stronger therapy outcome data and reporting• More efficient EMR workflows and user adoption• Faster onboarding and workforce readiness• Reduced friction between clinical care, compliance, and operationsI’m passionate about building clinically ready, operationally effective therapy teams and helping organizations align education, practice, and technology to deliver better care with less friction.

Experience

1. Acute Care Occupational Therapist

   Intermountain Health

   Apr 2023 — Present · Park City, UT, US

   Deliver occupational therapy services for medically complex and critically ill patients across med-surg, orthopedics, ICU, Emergency Department, and behavioral health settings. Manage high-acuity caseloads that frequently include complex psychiatric and psychosocial needs while coordinating interdisciplinary care, discharge planning, and patient education. Maintain accurate and defensible documentation in a fast-paced hospital environment.Maintaining an active clinical practice keeps my work grounded in the realities of modern healthcare delivery and directly informs my consulting work through Athena Therapy Consulting, particularly in clinical documentation, EMR workflows, and therapy outcomes.

Education

• Medical College of Georgia at Augusta University

  Occupational Therapy, Occupational Therapy/Therapist

  1995 — 1997

• The University of Georgia

  Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc), Public Health

  1990 — 1995