Our Founders and Partners
A founding partner of NOA is Cary D. Negley.
Mr. Negley began working with Health Data Sciences (HDS) when the company was in its infancy and became its first project manager. Upon leaving the firm, he had installed the UltiCare® (predecessor of Patient1® and Misys CPR™/CPOE™) product in more hospitals and departments than any current or former HDS employee. Mr. Negley left HDS after eight years as their Senior Project Manager and became a manager with First Consulting Group prior to forming NOA.
Mr. Negley has over twenty-one years of clinical computing experience working for vendors and consulting firms. His vendor experience includes almost four years with HBO & Company (HBOC) working in the implementation division of what was to become the Clin-Star® product line.
Elizabeth Ott is NOA's other founding partner.
Ms. Ott has over twelve years of computing experience providing applications and systems programming support for office automation, clinical and physician billing systems.
Ms. Ott has worked in the following capacities:
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systems engineer for Data General
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systems programmer for Health Data Sciences (HDS)
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applications programmer for Walker Technologies
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report writer for Candler General Hospital
Prior to joining NOA Rod worked in healthcare I.T. and Finance administration for multiple organizations over the past twenty years where he installed numerous financial and clinical systems. Among his most recent employers were both Forrest General Hospital and The Emory Clinic where he served as the Chief Information Officer of each organization.
Rod is certified in the Misys-CPR™/CPOE™ system and the Eclipsys Sunrise Clinical Manager system. He is also a Fellow in both the American College of Healthcare Executives as well as the Healthcare Financial Management Association.