|Articles|April 1, 2005

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At first glance, you might wonder what the Japanese auto industry has to do with managed healthcare in the United States. For Anthony Horbal (pictured left), founder and CEO of Erie, Pa.-based Ion Health Inc. and Mike Nelson, Ion Health's president and director, Japanese automakers just might have provided an epiphany.

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