

Healthcare Software Development
Innovation in healthcare software development is increasingly driven by the ability to harness the value of data.
Common Challenges in Healthcare Software Development
- Talented engineers with healthcare domain expertise are exceedingly scarce
- Unstructured data and data immaturity limit useable data sets for analysis when developing healthcare software
- Interoperability with legacy software systems is time-consuming and expensive
- Rules for data governance are difficult to navigate
Custom Healthcare Software Development Company
Newfire Global Partners is a healthcare software development company that offers tremendous healthcare domain experience, including former senior operators at digital health companies spanning provider, payor, and life sciences domains. Our custom healthcare software development services are trusted by industry leaders.
Medical Data Science & Analytics
Our data engineers and data scientists are familiar with managing EHR, LIMS, PRO, genomics, claims files, and other healthcare data sets. Combining a corpus of healthcare data with modern data engineering techniques can produce valuable descriptive, diagnostic, predictive, and/or prescriptive analytics.
Provider & Patient Adoption
Technology is only useful if it is sufficiently adopted by the intended users. Our UI/UX experts are familiar with developing healthcare software and the challenges related to designing software applications in a mission-critical and sometimes personal setting.
Compliance & Interoperability
Standards like HL7, CCD, SNOMED, and FHIR have greatly improved interoperability, but cross-system integrations are often still a foxhole-to-foxhole fight. We have the battlescars to get medical software development done right.
Leadership

Stephen is a technology executive, entrepreneur, and angel investor based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He is the CEO and Chairman of Newfire Global Partners, a consulting firm that helps companies with digital transformation and innovation. Stephen has held senior operating roles in startups to NASDAQ-listed companies and has experience as an independent board member. He is also a board member of BioProcure Inc. and Scrum Inc. Stephen is a respected tech leader and a member of the Forbes Technology Council. He has a keen understanding of building shareholder value and is known for his strategic perspective and technical prowess.

William Crawford has been a leader in the healthcare and technology industries for 25 years, including at Fitbit (as VP of Engineering), Medically Home (CTO) and SmartSense by Digi (Chief Product Officer). As CTO at Invantage, Inc, he launched the first major SaaS platform for Clinical Trial Management. From 2006 to 2007 he was the HIT Policy Lead at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. He is the co-author of three books on enterprise software published by O’Reilly & Associates, and has been an invited speaker on technology, healthcare and policy issues around the world. As an angel investor he has supported many successful startups and continues to mentor startups through TechStars Boston. He holds a BA from Yale University and an MS and MBA from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Sonali Damle is a seasoned executive specializing in human resources and organizational development. As the Chief People and Transformation Officer at Newfire Global Partners, she brings extensive experience in driving change and transformation. With a strong background in organizational design, leadership development, and talent acquisition, Sonali has made significant contributions to the growth and success of various companies. She also serves as a Strategic Advisor at Innovaccer and is a respected member of the Forbes Human Resources Council.

Michael is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Ardan Equity, a healthcare enterprise software private equity firm. He was most recently Managing Partner of Optum Ventures, a leading health services company focused on digital health innovation. Michael previously co-founded and served as CEO of Humedica, a pioneer and leader in the field of population health management and big data.

Dr. Qi Li, M.D., M.B.A., is a healthcare innovator with expertise in product inception, research, and global business development. As a physician executive at InterSystems, he leads product innovation in real-world evidence, life science, research, precision medicine, NLP, and AI. Dr. Li held leadership roles at Harris Healthcare and Partners Healthcare, where he developed the Longitudinal Medical Record. Serving on i2b2/tranSMART and MIT Hacking Medicine Institute boards, he advises startups globally. Dr. Li earned his M.D. and M.B.A. from Tufts University and a bachelor's degree from the University of Southern Maine.
Healthcare Software Development Services
We ideate and build solutions for a broad range of healthcare organizations. In our mission to help innovators solve the world's toughest challenges, we provide the technologies needed to succeed with medical app development.
FAQ
- What features you can implement in a healthcare software?
There is a broad range of features that can be realized during the digital health app development process. Depending on your needs, you can implement things like profile registration; personal information editing; doctor search, profile view, and appointment registration; Things like medicine or treatment reminders also can be implemented as well as any other schedule-based feature.
- Can you help minimize the risk of low software adoption?
To prevent low-level adoption among your users or employees, consider creating an engagement plan. It is a carefully crafted document that will roadmap and drive your user adoption.
- Do your healthcare software development services follow HIPAA compliance?
Yes, almost every healthcare partner is subject to HIPAA requirements. We digitize processes and empower digital health products with better care quality in full accordance with HIPAA regulations.
- How you ensure software security and HIPAA compliance?
While there’s no fixed approach, our domain expertise has clarified for us a way to achieve HIPAA compliance in a few steps. First, we conduct an initial risk analysis to define threats to the confidentiality, availability, and integrity of all PHI that your product produces, obtains, maintains, or shares. Then, we address the risks and adjust the business logic and system architecture of your software.
Becoming HIPAA-compliant is an ongoing process that requires a long-term strategy to continually manage potential security risks. This includes adopting network monitoring software that might help you deal with some of access control and data security risks.
- Do you provide custom medical software development?
Yes, we ideate and build custom solutions for a broad range of healthcare organizations. In our mission to help innovators solve the world’s toughest challenges, we provide the technologies needed to succeed.
- What are your healthcare software development services?
We provide a full range of software development for the healthcare industry. We ideate and build solutions like EHRs, medical CRMs, RCM systems, patient engagement platforms, and so on.
- What is AI-enabled healthcare development?
Although the field is quite young, we believe AI has the potential to impact every aspect of the healthcare industry, from detection to prevention and prediction:
- Pushing boundaries of human performance
- Democratizing medical knowledge and excellence
- Automating drudgery in medical practice
- Managing patients and medical resources
- Are you developing healthcare mobile applications?
Yes, we do. For example, one of our latest partners – Buoy Health – is an AI-powered navigation platform providing consumers with real-time personalized clinical support. As Buoy is a cross-platform solution, it works directly with consumers and employers to help its users get the right care at the right time.