Stan Schwartz

Stanley N. Schwartz, MD, FACP is a graduate of New York University School of Medicine. He did residency training in internal medicine and infectious diseases fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. He practiced infectious diseases, hospital epidemiology and internal medicine in Tulsa and later was Medical Director for Warren Clinic, a 375-provider clinic in the Saint Francis Health System.

Dr Schwartz is Chief Medical Officer and co-founder of The Zero Card, Inc., a digital health enterprise that connects providers offering bundles services with self-funded employers across the US. He also organized and now leads WellOK, Inc., the Northeastern Oklahoma Business Coalition on Health, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving the value of healthcare for Oklahoma businesses.

He serves on the board of Oklahoma Center for Healthcare Improvement. He also serves on the Clinical Quality Committee of MyHealth Access Network HIE.

He is a diplomate of the American Board of Internal Medicine in Internal Medicine and Infectious Diseases, and Fellow of the American College of Physicians and the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

Posts by Stan Schwartz

MedCity Influencers

The modern-day twisted ethics of physician referrals

Patients would not prefer a referral based on her physician's employment arrangement rather than quality ratings but that is how our system is designed.

MedCity Influencers, BioPharma

Diabetes, Deming’s perfect system and the value of home self-monitoring

Edwards Deming’s rule that “Every system is perfectly designed to get the results it gets” is perfectly on display in the wrongheaded way patients who are dependent on insulin get their medication at higher costs. The system can be redesigned by employers and others.

With the Rise of AI, What IP Disputes in Healthcare Are Likely to Emerge?

Munck Wilson Mandala Partner Greg Howison shared his perspective on some of the legal ramifications around AI, IP, connected devices and the data they generate, in response to emailed questions.