National Data Corporation (NDC) was an American

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founded in 1967 by Ret. U.S. Air Force Colonel George Thorpe. At its peak in 1987, NDC was the world's largest payments processor by volume. NDC operated chiefly in health information services and electronic payment processing for credit and debit cards. The company spun off its eCommerce division, Global Payment Systems, to form

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in 2001 while rebranding the healthcare division as NDCHealth. NDCHealth would later be acquired by Per-Se in 2005, which was subsequently acquired by

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in 2006.

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