Healthcare Solutions Rooted in Industry Experience

Precision Engineering, Expert Craftsmanship, and Healthcare Innovation: Newfire Knows How to Build for Healthcare.

A True Digital
Health Partner.

Newfire Global Partners is a product development, software engineering and strategic advisory firm with a leadership team deeply rooted in the healthcare industry. Prior to Newfire, our leaders built high-impact healthcare technology companies, led provider organizations, drove healthcare policy and delivered change across healthcare domains from clinical trials to RCM to EHRs to payor effectiveness.

This expertise, coupled with decades of collective industry insight, allows us to offer guidance throughout the entire software development lifecycle, with a particular focus on regulatory compliance, patient care, revenue cycle, and life science applications.

We know healthcare. For real.

Our customers

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Partnership Options
That Fit Every
Healthcare Business.

Working with Newfire gives you the ability to tap into real, applied experience. While we rigorously protect our partners intellectual property, our internal
(and, yes, AI powered!) experts platform allows everyone at Newfire to rapidly track down the person who has “done it before” and can help guide your team to success.

Healthcare Service Providers

For companies that are focused on delivering healthcare services enabled by technology, Newfire can serve as an external engineering department, bringing specialized, experienced team members and management so that our partners can focus on their clinical differentiation.

Technology Providers

For digital health technology companies, we help scale global teams for application development, operations, healthcare data management and production support, using a mix of US, near-shore and off-shore team members and advisors, supported by a robust customer success organization with deep roots in high quality software engineering. And if you need help right now - we can do that too.

Healthcare
Software Development Services.

Newfire brings decades of experience in digital healthcare, from the highest levels for the company on down. We invest heavily in training and on keeping our team up to date on both key technologies and key trends and concepts in healthcare delivery.

Our advisory services team includes CTOs, CPOs and key leaders and operators with experience from delivery to payor to research, and that gives us an unparalleled level of pattern recognition when helping build healthcare applications.

Electronic Health Records

Whether it’s integration or development, Newfire can make an EHR initiative succeed. We helped customers to integrate deeply with Epic and Cerner, to build applications on top of athenahealth, and to take advantage of SMART-on-FHIR to embed their functionality at a clinician’s fingertips. And we’ve even helped drive development of speciality EHRs - from underlying data models and documentation tools to clinician-focused user experience.

Revenue Cycle Management

Newfire’s team members have been innovators in RCM since the 1990s. In the last few years we have helped stand-up novel payment systems for care in the home, prior authorization and payment support, claims submission, claims submission and advanced analytics and reporting.

Patient Engagement

Our User Experience teams have experience putting the patient first. We have helped our partners design patient engagement experiences across a wide range of demographics and user experiences - from outpatient appointment scheduling and medication refills to hospital-at-home.

Population Health Analytics

From claims data to PBMs to EHRs to Social Determinants of Health, we help digital health companies build data pipelines and reporting platforms to improve patient outcomes, find patients for clinical trials, and manage risk - and then create the tools to engage those patients.

Telemedicine and Telehealth

We know Telemedicine. From casual consults to mission-critical, high-acuity remote monitoring, Newfire can deliver the infrastructure and partnerships to build scalable, reliable and highly usable telehealth platforms, along with omni-channel approaches to patient engagement that leverage voice, video and mobile interactions.

Internet of Medical Things

Our team has led development of IoT and IoMT platforms that have been used by tens of millions of people and impacted millions more - whether it’s keeping the drug supply chain safe, monitoring vital signs for care in the home, or enabling top wearable brands. We understand the complexities of connectivity, late arriving data and IoT security and resilience.

Healthcare Analytics

Analytics are vital to driving outcomes at scale - and outcomes at scale are critical to value-based care and to meeting the sustainability and equity challenges in healthcare in 2024. Newfire’s Data and AI practice has deep experience in healthcare, starting with core analytics infrastructure and including expertise in clinical informatics, claims and clinical data modeling, and transforming that data into actionable insights for medical leadership.

Interoperability

Pick any two endpoints - we’ve connected them. Whether it’s good-old-fashioned HL7 v2, SMART-on-FHIR or custom APIs, Newfire can help you define an interoperability strategy and then deliver on it. Recently, we’ve built integrations with Amazon HealthLake and Google Healthcare Cloud, as well as MuleSoft, Mirth, InterSystems and other industry-standard interoperability platforms.

What our customers say

"Our partnership with Newfire has been critical in accelerating our development and facilitating a successful commercial launch. They became a seamlessly integrated part of our team, and we continue to rely on Newfire to help us build new features and help us move faster in more and more areas."

Vinayak Kumar

Chief Technology Officer @ Lynx

"Given the privacy concerns of our customer base, we required an IT service provider we could fully trust. Newfire has been a partner in talking through our roadmap on the operational side, diving into clickstream data and conducting research into the idiosyncrasies of US healthcare to arrive at well-argued recommendations about the path forward."

Ryan Scharer

Chief Technology Officer @ FOLX Health

"Newfire has proven to be a true partner who is committed to client success. They bring both technical expertise and business understanding."

Kevin Riley

President of IoT Solutions @ Digi International (NASDAQ:DGII)

“When we proposed an idea or a solution, our Newfire team would sometimes push back and say: ‘I don’t think that’s the right approach. Here’s what we could do instead.’ This type of collaboration helped us be held accountable and get things done.”

Bill Olsen

Chief Technology Officer @ UptimeHealth

“Partnering with Newfire has allowed my team to gain momentum without having to provide daily management. They actively find ways to add value, even in a complex environment where directive can change. I’m very impressed with their technical expertise and ability to help us scale as an organization.”

Greg Joondeph-Breidbart

Senior Vice President Of Engineering @ Buoy Health

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Leadership Spotlight

Our leadership team has a proven track record of delivering results in healthcare technology. With extensive experience in digital health and life sciences, our seasoned professionals consistently achieve high-value outcomes that align with your strategic goals.

Stephen S. Hau

Steve is Newfire’s CEO & Chairman. Over the last thirty years, Steve has significantly impacted digital health and enterprise software. Notably, he co-founded PatientKeeper in 1997, pioneering Clinical Trial Management Software and setting new standards in electronic health records. Steve has held senior operating roles in startups to NASDAQ-listed companies and has experience as an independent board member.

Beyond Newfire, he served on the boards of Scrum Inc. and BioProcure as an independent director, and is a member of the Forbes Technology Council. Steve’s extensive expertise and visionary leadership continue to drive advancements in digital health and technology

Will Crawford

Will is Newfire’s Head of Advisory Services and CTO. Over the last thirty years he has been involved in almost every aspect of digital health, from the first web-based electronic health records, to co-founding a pioneering Clinical Trial Management Software company in 1997, to executive roles at Fitbit, PAREXEL and Medically Home, as well as time in Washington DC covering Health IT as part of the Office of Policy at the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

As a technology leader, he is the co-author of four bestselling books on enterprise software development, and has spoken on Health IT and technology topics around the world.

Why Choose Newfire Global Partners?

Proven Track Record

Our extensive portfolio of successful projects and satisfied clients is a testament to our ability to deliver results. We bring decades of experience and deep sector knowledge to every partnership.

Tailored Solutions

We understand that every organization is unique. Our solutions are customized to meet your specific needs, ensuring maximum relevance and impact.

Efficiency and Trust

Our commitment to efficiency and trust is unwavering. We partner transparently and collaboratively, keeping you informed and engaged throughout the process.

Expertise at Scale

Whether you need an individual expert or a comprehensive team, we have the breadth and depth of expertise required to support your ambitions.

At Newfire, we suceed when you do.