Noel Brown Williams

Biography

Noel Williams is President of HCA Information Technology & Services, Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary of Nashville-based HCA (Hospital Corporation of America). As an executive of the country’s largest hospital company and second largest healthcare IT provider, Ms. Williams leads a staff of over 3,000 employees across the U.S., including five data centers and fourteen division support centers. She is responsible for delivering IT services to HCA as well as over 145 non-HCA hospitals and facilities. She also serves as Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer for HCA, responsible for HCA’s IT strategy and the overall operation of the company’s vast IT systems and services.

Ms. Williams has over 30 years of experience in healthcare IT, most with HCA. She spent 16 years in HCA’s Information Services Department in a variety of positions, including serving as Vice President of Information Services from 1993 to 1995. Her leadership helped earn HCA’s Internet Systems and Services over 20 industry awards. In September 1997, Ms. Williams accepted the position as CIO of HCA IT&S after serving as Chief Information Officer for America Service Group in Brentwood, Tennessee.

Ms. Williams has previously served on the board of Franklin Road Academy, the United Way of Middle Tennessee, the Nashville Alliance for Public Education, the National Alliance for Health Information Technology (NAHIT), and the American Hospital Association Working Group for Health IT Standards. She currently serves on the Vanderbilt University School of Engineering Committee of Visitors and The HCA Foundation.