-----BEGIN PRIVACY-ENHANCED MESSAGE----- Proc-Type: 2001,MIC-CLEAR Originator-Name: webmaster@www.sec.gov Originator-Key-Asymmetric: MFgwCgYEVQgBAQICAf8DSgAwRwJAW2sNKK9AVtBzYZmr6aGjlWyK3XmZv3dTINen TWSM7vrzLADbmYQaionwg5sDW3P6oaM5D3tdezXMm7z1T+B+twIDAQAB MIC-Info: RSA-MD5,RSA, N7PhJsGB+GL6c42fbiVlU9xDpX+t5qTkJaFIaH9/rTMdM6diKGypWuNV0+stNYrI EMGVGh9Dp/nJsXZSgfVM/Q== 0001181431-04-038602.txt : 20040804 0001181431-04-038602.hdr.sgml : 20040804 20040804160110 ACCESSION NUMBER: 0001181431-04-038602 CONFORMED SUBMISSION TYPE: 3 PUBLIC DOCUMENT COUNT: 2 CONFORMED PERIOD OF REPORT: 20040708 FILED AS OF DATE: 20040804 REPORTING-OWNER: OWNER DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: FITZGIBBONS JAMES W CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0001299584 FILING VALUES: FORM TYPE: 3 SEC ACT: 1934 Act SEC FILE NUMBER: 001-12392 FILM NUMBER: 04951804 BUSINESS ADDRESS: BUSINESS PHONE: 404.728.2239 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: 1564 NE EXPRESSWAY CITY: ATLANTA STATE: GA ZIP: 30329 ISSUER: COMPANY DATA: COMPANY CONFORMED NAME: NDCHEALTH CORP CENTRAL INDEX KEY: 0000070033 STANDARD INDUSTRIAL CLASSIFICATION: SERVICES-BUSINESS SERVICES, NEC [7389] IRS NUMBER: 580977458 STATE OF INCORPORATION: DE FISCAL YEAR END: 0531 BUSINESS ADDRESS: STREET 1: NDCHEALTH CORPORATION STREET 2: NDC PLAZA CITY: ATLANTA STATE: GA ZIP: 30329 BUSINESS PHONE: 4047282000 MAIL ADDRESS: STREET 1: NDC PLAZA CITY: ATLANTA STATE: GA ZIP: 30329-2010 FORMER COMPANY: FORMER CONFORMED NAME: NATIONAL DATA CORP DATE OF NAME CHANGE: 19920703 3 1 rrd49761.xml X0202 3 2004-07-08 0 0000070033 NDCHEALTH CORP NDC 0001299584 FITZGIBBONS JAMES W 1564 NE EXPRESSWAY ATLANTA GA 30329 0 1 0 0 Chief Accounting Officer Non-Qualified Stock Option (right to buy) 26.05 2005-01-05 2014-01-05 Common Stock 3000 D Grant to reporting person of option to purchase shares of stock under the NDCHealth 2000 Long-Term Incentive Plan. The option becomes exercisable in increments of 25% each year for four years. B.J. Purcell as Power of Attorney for James W. FitzGibbons 2004-08-04 EX-24.TXT 2 rrd41001_46212.htm POWER OF ATTORNEY rrd41001_46212.html

SECTION 16
POWER OF ATTORNEY

	Know all by these presents, that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
Randolph L.M. Hutto and B.J. Purcell or either of them, signing singly, the undersigned's true
and lawful attorney-in-fact to:

(1)	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity as an
officer, director and/or 10% shareholder of NDCHealth Corporation (the "Company"), Forms 3,
4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules
thereunder;

(2)	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which may
be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5 and timely file such
form with the Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar authority;
and

(3)	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to, in the best interest of, or
legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood that the documents executed by such
attorney-in-fact on behalf of the undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such
form and shall contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.

The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and authority to
do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite, necessary, or proper to be done
in the exercise of any of the rights and powers herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes
as the undersigned might or could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or
revocation, hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such attorney-in-
fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue of this power of
attorney and the rights and powers herein granted. The undersigned acknowledges that the
foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not
assuming, nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

The Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the undersigned is no
longer required to file Forms 3, 4, and 5 with respect to the undersigned's holdings of and
transactions in securities issued by the Company, unless earlier revoked by the undersigned in a
signed writing delivered to the foregoing attorneys-in-fact.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Power of Attorney to be
executed as of this 2nd day of August, 2004.


							/s/ James W. FitzGibbons


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