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Forbes.com: Rob Wherry On Health Care IT: “The Watch List

Ron Ponder and WellPoint-Anthem: Ponder is chief information officer at the United States’ leading health care benefits provider. Ponder was the genius behind FedEx’s (nyse: FDX – news – people ) original IT systems. He moved on to Sprint (nyse: FON – news – people ) and AT&T (nyse: T – news – people ), and now he’s been given carte blanche by WellPoint Chairman Leonard Schaeffer to design systems to cut massive amounts of paperwork out of the company’s bottom line. If he does it, WellPoint will be the darling of the industry.”