We empower better health.

PatientPoint® is a leading digital health company that connects patients, healthcare providers and life sciences companies with the right information in the moments care decisions are made to influence patient behavior and empower better health.

Unrivaled experience. Unmatched scale.

Join the thousands of providers who rely on PatientPoint’s innovative solutions to engage, empower and educate their patients.

  • 35-year industry leader and innovator
  • 124,000 unique healthcare providers
  • 35,000 physician offices
  • 750M annual patient visits

Unrivaled experience. Unmatched scale.

Why Providers Partner with PatientPoint

“I consider myself an extremely satisfied customer, grateful to PatientPoint for providing the ‘no sweat’ technology to address my need for patient education and in significantly improving the overall Prima CARE patient experience.”

– Dr. Martin Fogle, Chief Medical Officer, Prima CARE

Best-in-Class Health Content

PatientPoint’s 50+ Content and Creative team produces proprietary, award-winning content that is proven to improve health outcomes. We are honored to be recognized as the industry’s most awarded point-of-care education provider.

PatientPoint’s 50+ Content and Creative team produces proprietary, award-winning content that is proven to improve health outcomes. We are honored to be recognized as the industry’s most awarded point-of-care education provider.

Respected Partnerships with Leading Healthcare Associations

We collaborate with industry-leading organizations to deliver trustworthy patient education and health content that helps change lives.

AARP   |   Ad Council   |   Alzheimer’s Association   |   American Association of Dermatology    |   American Liver Foundation   |   American Society Cancer Oncology (ASCO)   |   Arthritis Foundation   |   Asthma and Allergy Foundation   |   Beyond Type 1    |   Bladder Cancer Advocacy Network   |   Bright Focus Foundation   |   Bright Pink   |   CanDo MS   |   CHPA (Consumer Healthcare Product Association)   |   Colorectal Cancer Alliance   |   Conquering the Curve    |   Crohn’s and Colitis Foundation   |   Cure SMA   |   Cure Spinal Muscular Atrophy    |   Donate Life   |   Essential Tremor Foundation   |   Food Allergy Research & Education   |   Gout and Uric Acid Society   |   Headspace   |   Imerman Angels   |   Leukemia Lymphoma Society   |   Lupus Initiative – American College of Rheumatology   |   March of Dimes   |  Meningitis B Action Plan   |   Mental Health America   |   Movember Foundation   |   Myositis Association   |   National Foundation for Infectious Disease   |   National Commission of Certification of Physician Assistants (NCCPA)   |   National MS Society   |   NIAID – COVID Response Network   |   NMSS   |   NO STIGMA   |   Shatterproof   |   Skin Cancer Foundation (SCCN) / The Big See    |   Spondylitis Association of America   |   Testicular Cancer Society   |   Unity   |   WomenHeart   |   Zerocancer

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Our Leadership

Mike Collette

Chief Executive Officer

Mike Collette is an entrepreneur, executive and pioneer in aperture and point-of-care marketing.

He co-founded OnTarget Media and Healthy Advice Networks (which would later evolve to become PatientPoint). Today, Mike is helping to lead PatientPoint and the healthcare industry through an unprecedented period of growth and technical innovation.

A native of New York, Mike holds an engineering degree from Dartmouth College and began his career at Procter & Gamble, working in the Health and Personal Care Division.

In Cincinnati, Mike serves as executive-in-residence at CincyTech USA, helping other entrepreneurs turn transformational ideas into high-growth technology companies.

Linda Ruschau

Chief Client Officer

Linda Ruschau is the Chief Client Officer at PatientPoint, the trusted market leader of patient and physician engagement solutions at the point of care. As Chief Client Officer, Linda leads the national client sales and service teams to collaborate with healthcare brand partners to impact that magic moment when patients and physicians come together for treatment discussions. She brings over 30 years of experience in marketing across pharmaceutical, OTC and CPG brands. Her immersion and passion for the Point of Care channel is evident, as what fuels her energy is speaking with clients and agency partners and helping them problem-solve. As one of PatientPoint’s first employees, Ruschau helped the organization pioneer the concept of aperture marketing—reaching the right patient at the right time with the right third-party influencer. While products have certainly evolved, the concept of developing solutions that continue to change patient behaviors and outcomes in exam rooms, waiting rooms and clinical areas is still driving success for brands today.

After earning her degree in business administration from the University of Cincinnati, Linda went to work for Procter & Gamble in their sales leadership program. Linda regularly shares her insights in writing and as an energizing speaker at industry events, serving as the keynote emcee for the DTC National Top 25 DTC Marketers and DTC Hall of Fame Awards and bringing her always-fresh perspective to Digital Pharma East, the Digital Health Coalition and multiple women’s leadership conferences. She was named to the prestigious MM+M Hall of Femme in 2018 and was a recipient of the 2017 PM360 ELITE Sales MVP award. Linda serves on the Board of Directors of the Point of Care Marketing Association and as an Advisory Board member of the Digital Health Coalition. Most recently, Linda is continuing to hone and support women in leadership positions with membership in CHIEF, a private network for the most powerful women in leadership.

Chris Martini

Chief Provider Officer

Chris Martini is a healthcare industry executive with a strategic vision for more effective patient-provider interaction across the entire patient care journey.

As Chief Provider Officer, Chris is responsible for all business functions and financial performance of the provider business unit and is a pivotal executive champion for PatientPoint’s expansion into Remote Care Management solutions. Chris also led the company’s entrance into the hospital sector and the acquisition of several prominent businesses that have helped more than triple the reach of PatientPoint solutions over the past decade.

Previously, Chris was president of American Hospitals Publishing Group, Int. and brings additional experience in management and sales from Nike, Inc. and Boston Scientific. Chris earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Lehigh University.

Pat O’Brien

Chief Financial Officer

Pat O’Brien plays a critical role in ensuring the launch of new PatientPoint technologies, products and services.

As Chief Financial Officer, Pat guides the funding of a robust development pipeline and coordinates the company’s long-term performance plans.

Pat began his career at Arthur Andersen and moved on to Deloitte & Touche, where PatientPoint was his client for five years. Through that experience, he saw the significant impact PatientPoint has on patients and providers and moved over to join the team.

Pat graduated with an accounting degree from the University of Cincinnati’s College of Business.

Damon Ragusa

Chief Data and Technology Officer

Damon Ragusa brings deep expertise at the cross section of technology and data sciences with a laser focus on the customer experience to propel and transform leading technology companies.

As Chief Data and Technology Officer, Damon develops secure infrastructure to help transform data into valuable information and insights and power decision making for all stakeholders. In this role, Damon leads PatientPoint’s data and IT infrastructure functions as well as the organization’s engineering and software development teams.

Most recently, Damon served as Chief Executive Officer of award-winning education software management platform Abre.io. He previously founded and served as Chief Executive Officer of ThinkVine, a data science and software company designated by Forrester Research as a leader in the marketing optimization and attribution industry.

Damon earned his bachelor’s degree in statistics from Bowling Green State University.

Angie Hemmelgarn

Chief People Officer

Angie Hemmelgarn is an accomplished global talent leader with proven success in developing, implementing and managing people, strategy and solutions aligned with strategic goals.

As Chief People Officer, Angie is responsible for partnering with business leaders to advance PatientPoint’s people strategy and cultivating an innovative, high-performance culture and differentiated employee experience.

Angie most recently served as Chief HR Officer at data-driven marketing company Claritas, where she led people and internal communications strategies that fueled explosive company growth. Previous to Claritas, Angie served as Chief People Officer at Everything But the House and spent 15 years at The Nielsen Company serving in various HR leadership roles.

Angie earned both her bachelor’s degree in sociology and master’s degree in labor and employment relations from the University of Cincinnati.

Andrew Schultz

Chief Product & Strategy Officer

Andrew Schultz is a healthcare marketing, product and content executive with a passion for creating a better way to deliver personalized healthcare across the entire care continuum.

As Chief Product & Strategy Officer, Andrew is responsible for unifying and elevating the collective product, brand and content vision of PatientPoint. In this role, Andrew leads integrated product, marketing and content teams to deliver breakthrough solutions that positively impact the care experience for patients and providers.

Andrew brings a unique understanding of systems thinking, design-led innovation and global marketing strategy to PatientPoint. Most recently, Andrew served as Group Vice President of Global Commercial Marketing for AmerisourceBergen, a global pharmaceutical services company, where he played an instrumental role in architecting and scaling global marketing, brand and customer experience practices. Andrew previously held a variety of strategy and creative leadership positions within large agency networks and boutique digital consultancies.

Andrew earned an undergraduate degree in design from McDaniel College and an Executive MBA in global strategy and management from Villanova University.

Health Empowerment for All

Health Empowerment for All

The PatientPoint Foundation was created to ensure PatientPoint’s technology and health education can be made available in communities where gaps in care and health disparities are pervasive.

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