Ms. Schweitzer has focused professionally on the revenue cycle management industry for the past 30 years. In such capacity, Ms Schweitzer has held numerous founder and executive/industry association leadership roles with several companies and organizations. Ms Schweitzer joined Caremedic in March of 2003 as COO and was appointed Chairman of the Board and CEO in September 2003. Under her leadership Caremedic achieved a lead position in the HCIT revenue cycle market. During her tenure revenue and EBITDA grew by 650 percent and Caremedic successfully brought to market the first enterprise class revenue management system, the Electronic Financial Record (eFR). Ms Schweitzer sold Caremedic to Ingenix in December 2009.
Prior to joining CareMedic, Ms. Schweitzer was recruited to MedUnite Inc, a consortium of seven health plans -- Aetna, Cigna, Wellpoint, Anthem, Oxford, Healthnet, and PacificCare 45; which was formed to develop a network that connects physicians with payers for the electronic exchange of health data such as eligibility, claim status, referrals, authorizations and claim submission. Ms Schweitzer served in a consulting capacity to MedUnite in an initiative to position the Company for a sale. During her consulting tenure, Ms Schweitzer served as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of MedUnite as well as a member of the firm's Executive Committee. Following her successful effort to rationalize overhead and functionalize MedUnite's web product offering for real-time transaction processing, Ms Schweitzer managed a multi-bid auction process, which led to the Company's sale to ProxyMed, Inc. in December 2002.
Prior to MedUnite, Ms. Schweitzer served as Chief Executive Officer of Presideo, Inc., which developed and marketed a biometric security technology for HCIT systems. Presideo was funded by Mayo Medical Ventures and Safeguard Scientifics, among others. Ms Schweitzer led the Company from its inception to product launch (following an 18-month product development period) and recruited a host of luminary hospital clients, including MD Anderson, Mayo Clinic - Jacksonville and Mayo Clinic - Scottsdale. Presideo was later sold to Smart Biometrics, Inc.
Prior to Presideo, Ms Schweitzer served as Senior Vice President of Operations with ENVOY Corporation (now a division of Emdeon), the nation's largest healthcare transactions service company. In this capacity, Ms. Schweitzer oversaw the management of 1,600 employees and acted in a direct reporting relationship to the Co-CEO's of ENVOY while serving on the firm's Executive Committee. During her six-year tenure, Ms Schweitzer led the healthcare transaction processing operations of ENVOY from inception to over $280 million in revenues, representing over 30 million transactions processed per month. Further, Ms Schweitzer managed the due diligence, negotiation and operational integration of 18 acquisitions and oversaw the sale of ENVOY's credit card processing division to First Data Corporation.