CEO
Anthony J (Tony) Schueth is founder and Chief Executive Officer of Point-of-Care Partners (POCP). A 35-year healthcare veteran, Mr. Schueth has spent the last 30 years working to provide decision support, communication, and other technology services at the point-of-care.
He is considered an expert in health information technology (HIT) and health information exchange (HIE), in general, and one of the nation’s foremost experts in electronic prescribing and prior authorization. He has developed an extensive network of HIT contacts, and still serves as the executive sponsor of many POCP’s consulting engagements. The company’s client list is a “who’s who” of HIT stakeholders in segments such as health plans, pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs), interoperability companies, employers, drug knowledge-based companies, pharmaceutical manufacturers, Federal and State government agencies, electronic health record (EHRs) and other technology companies, providers, and health systems.
Mr. Schueth founded POCP in 2003. Since then, his emphasis has shifted from consulting to running the business, though he still spends time consulting and talking with stakeholders.
Mr. Schueth also serves as a podcast moderator, Editor-in-Chief of HIT Perspectives, publisher of POCP’s Regulatory Resource Center subscription services. He frequently speaks at conferences, writes extensively about HIT-related issues, and is quoted in the national media. Mr. Schueth is highly active with NCPDP (National Council of Prescription Drug Programs), WEDI (Workgroup for Electronic Data Interchange) and HL7 (Health Level 7). Mr. Schueth is the chair of the NCPDP Foundation Designated Subcommittee.
Prior to founding POCP, Mr. Schueth spent 5 years at Merck-Medco (now part of Cigna), where he developed and executed innovative ePrescribing and point-of-care strategies. Before that, Mr. Schueth worked for five years at Integrated Medical Systems, Inc., a pre-Internet health care connectivity company (now the equivalent of health information exchange) owned by Eli Lilly and Company when he left. There he had a variety of responsibilities, including a product manager for an early-generation electronic prescribing application, a business development manager responsible for identifying new technology partners, and as a physician sales manager responsible for doubling the organizations’ physician customer base to 50,000.
He has a Master of Science in integrated marketing communications from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois and a Bachelor of Arts in Journalism from Butler University in Indianapolis, Indiana. He also completed Florda State’s Jim Moran Institute for Global Entrepreneurship Small Business Executive Program – Broward County, Florida in 2017.
