Noel Williams, chief information officer for the HCA hospital chain and president of the company's HCA Information Technology & Services Inc. subsidiary, plans to retire at the end of May. Williams has spent more than 30 years with Nashville-based HCA. Williams' responsibilities include overseeing the hospital chain's information technology strategy and operations of its IT system services and delivering IT services to the chain's hospitals and more than 120 non-HCA hospitals and facilities. She leads a staff of more than 3,000 employees nationwide.
