Dr. Carolyn Wong Simpkins
Health Catalyst, Salt Lake City, has hired Dr. Carolyn Wong Simpkins as chief medical informatics officer. Simpkins will lead the development of medical content for the company’s next-generation suite of products and help shape machine learning algorithms so they can best be used to influence important care decisions. Simpkins is a physician, health information executive and health system transformation leader. She previously was North American clinical director and global lead for patient-centered outcomes at the British Medical Journal and served as founding medical director for the Barrier Islands Free Medical Clinic in South Carolina.