SALT LAKE CITY, Oct 3, 2011 – Healthcare Quality Catalyst Corp. (www.hqcatalyst.com), the leader in healthcare data warehousing, announced the selection of Dr. David Burton as Chief Executive Officer. Dr. Burton brings more than three decades of clinical and leadership experience to his position at the helm of HQC. Dr. Burton will focus on building out the management team and expanding the product line.

"It is an honor for me to lead HQC during this critical era for US health systems," declared Dr. Burton. "The addition to the team of key board members and senior leaders together with dramatic expansion of HQC's product offerings, positions us to help healthcare systems make fundamental improvements in care and cost structure."

Dr. Burton has been involved with HQC from day one as a member of its Advisory Board, leading the effort to develop the company's data warehouse from a clinical perspective. Dr. Burton is a former Senior Vice President of Intermountain Healthcare, where he served in a variety of executive positions for 23 years. He spent the last 13 years of his career co-developing Intermountain's clinical process models utilized within the EDW environment. Dr. Burton was the founding CEO of Intermountain's managed care plans (now known as SelectHealth), which currently provide insurance coverage to approximately 500,000 members.

He holds an MD from Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons and did his residency training at Massachusetts General Hospital in Internal Medicine. He was a charter member of the American College of Emergency Physicians and was Board Certified in Emergency Medicine. He practiced emergency medicine and was president of a single-specialty group of 20 emergency care physicians for nine years before joining the executive team at Intermountain.

"Dr. Burton is one-of-a-kind," said Steve Barlow, Co-Founder and Chief Information Officer of HQC. "He brings a wealth of critical experience including having been a founder and CEO of a managed care plan as well as a senior executive and architect of the clinical strategy of one of the most advanced healthcare systems in the US."

HEALTHCARE QUALITY CATALYST

Headquartered in Salt Lake City and founded in 2008, Healthcare Quality Catalyst is a Sequoia-backed company providing industry leading healthcare data warehousing software, as well as clinical implementation and process improvement services to help healthcare organizations fundamentally improve patient outcomes and reduce costs. Clients include Allina Hospitals and Clinics, MultiCare Health Systems, North Memorial Health Care, Stanford Hospital and Clinics, and Texas Children's Hospital.

If you would like more information about HQC, please visit www.hqcatalyst.com, contact HQC by phone at (801) 708-6800, or send an email to Chris Keller, Director of Market Research, at chris.keller@hqcatalyst.com.