Health care IT company Kyruus has named Soojin Chung as its first general counsel. Chung also assumes the title of chief administrative officer.
Chung will oversee all legal and compliance matters for Kyruus, which uses data to help health systems more precisely match patients with providers and reduce barriers to access, according to the Boston-based company's website. She also will be responsible for key administrative departments, including human resources and IT.
Chung has more than 19 years of experience in the health care technology industry, most recently serving as the top lawyer at Caradigm, a health care IT company started as a joint venture between Microsoft and GE Healthcare. Before Caradigm, Chung was senior counsel in the health care knowledge and connectivity solutions business unit at GE Healthcare, according to a Kyruus statement.
"We can't begin to care for patients effectively if they have to wait weeks to see providers only to end up being scheduled with the wrong ones," Chung said in the statement. "I firmly believe that Kyruus' platform is the only solution that can truly optimize patients' access to providers, while improving revenue for the health system."
Before going in-house at GE Healthcare, Chung was counsel in the technology transactions and licensing group at Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, and before that she was an associate at Kaye Scholer (now Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer), according to her LinkedIn profile.
A Kyruus spokesman did not immediately respond to emailed requests for comment.