East Tennessee Children's Hospital
Rick Simpson has extensive work experience in the field of Information Technology. Rick currently holds the position of Director of Information Technology at East Tennessee Children's Hospital since July 2022. Prior to this role, they served as the Assistant Director of Information Technology at the same hospital. Rick started their journey at East Tennessee Children's Hospital as a Clinical Applications Manager, where they worked with MEDITECH Applications (both MAGIC and MEDITECH 6.0) from November 2009 to December 2019.
Before joining East Tennessee Children's Hospital, Rick worked as a Solutions Architect at Mercy Health Partners and Catholic Healthcare Partners in 2008-2009. Rick also served as a Senior Systems Analyst at Baptist Health System of East Tennessee from 1998 to 2009.
Rick Simpson has a diverse education history. Rick obtained their Master of Science in Health Administration with a specialization in Health Informatics from Trident University International in 2020. Prior to that, they completed a Certificate/License with the Tennessee Board of Pharmacy as a Pharmacy Technician/Assistant at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville in 2016. In 2015, Rick also completed a Pharmacy Technician program at the same institution. Additionally, they pursued a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, with a focus on the School of Education. The start and end years for this degree are not provided.
East Tennessee Children's Hospital
Located in Knoxville, Tennessee, we are a private, independent, not-for-profit pediatric medical center that has served the children of East Tennessee since 1937. We are also certified by the state of Tennessee as the only Comprehensive Regional Pediatric Center in East Tennessee. At East Tennessee Children's Hospital, children are our only concern, and that is what drives our mission: to provide the best possible health care to every child we serve from East Tennessee, southwest Virginia, southeast Kentucky and western North Carolina. It is a mission that centers on a profound and unchanging commitment to the physical, educational and emotional needs of each child. As the only medical center in East Tennessee devoted solely to children, Children's Hospital operates under one critically important guideline: children are not small adults. Their needs are unique and diverse. Every element of our approach to healing — from the specially trained staff to the sophisticated equipment to the cheerful decor — is child- and family-centered