About

Expertise

Healthcare Quality Measurement and Display

Since 2004, our team has been involved in pioneering the display of healthcare quality information on the web. We understand quality measures and the context surrounding them. We are strategic partners with our clients, assisting their organizations with their mission and goals.

Easy-To-Use Software and Web Sites

We excel at designing software and web sites that people find easy to use. We will involve your users, test prototypes before building, and work with you and your business and organization to build what makes sense for your business. We use the same philosophy with our products, and are continually updating them for an optimal user experience.

High Quality, Secure Application Development

We understand the latest in web technology and security and develop applications that are secure, reliable, and perform well. We have worked with many healthcare clients in a number of environments. We also work with an excellent network of strategic partners to insure the quality and reliability of your software and web site.

Leadership Team

Joel Walker is the CEO of Ancilla Partners. He has over 10 years of strategic consulting experience, and is an expert in healthcare quality data measurement, and technical implementations of web-based healthcare quality data systems and applications. Joel worked for GS Design as a web developer and project manager for 5 years. Previously Joel worked as a consultant for Accenture for 4 years. Joel and Emily founded Ancilla Partners in January of 2007 and have focused solely on healthcare data reporting applications since then. Joel graduated from the UW-Madison in 1997 with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering.

Emily Norton is the President of Ancilla Partners. She has over 15 years of strategic consulting experience, and is an expert assisting large corporations and organizations to uncover business needs and formulate successful strategies that combine user needs and business goals. She is an expert in user-centered design and information architecture. Prior to forming Ancilla Partners, she was the User Experience Manager at GS Design, a Senior Information Architect with USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST/Whittman-Hart), and Technical Editor at Johnson Controls. She holds a bachelor’s degree in Economics from UW-Madison.

Allen Cooper is the CFO of Ancilla Partners. He has over 11 years of business, technical and strategic consulting experience. Allen began his career at Accenture and was there for eight years, and left to pursue an MBA from UW-Madison in Strategic Business. While achieving his MBA, Allen was able to gain industry and functional knowledge in supply chain strategy and corporate finance at Virchow Krause, Harley-Davidson, and Kohl’s Department Store. His strengths in utilizing customer focused, best practices and implementing core technologies has helped businesses identify, design and deliver differentiating value over their competitors.

Paul Post is the CTO of Ancilla Partners. He has over 10 years of strategic business and technology consulting experience. He is an expert in software development and implementation. Paul's experience includes working with both Fortune 500 companies and non-profit organizations. Paul spent 8 years at Accenture, leaving as a Manager to take on the Director of Information Technology role at United Way of Greater Milwaukee, a position he held for 5 years prior to joining Ancilla Partners. Paul graduated from the UW-Madison in 1994 with a bachelor's degree in Industrial Engineering.

If you are a...

• Regional Healthcare Quality Collaborative
• Health System
• Hospital
• Large or Small Physician Practice
• Healthcare Software Vendor
• Non-Profit involved in Healthcare Reform

...and others...Get in Touch!