Hard Problems, Smart Solutions: The Newfire Podcast
Hard Problems, Smart Solutions: The Newfire Podcast
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Join Newfire’s engineering, product, data, and people experts as they tackle today’s most pressing technology questions alongside industry leaders from some of the world’s most notable companies. This is where the hard problems you’re facing finally get the smart solutions you were looking for.
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The podcast focuses on cutting-edge topics in technology, particularly in healthcare and data security. Episodes cover AI in healthcare, security budgeting strategies, and data product development with examples like the AMA Intelligent Platform and Datalabs GPT illustrating practical applications of technology.
Join Newfire’s engineering, product, data, and people experts as they tackle today’s most pressing technology questions alongside industry leaders from some of the world’s most notable companies. This is where the hard problems you’re facing finally get the smart solutions you were looking for.
In this episode of Hard Problems, Smart Solutions, host Will Crawford, Head of Advisory Services and CTO at Newfire Global Partners, converses with Dr. Paulo Pinho, a practicing physician and seasoned health informaticist. Dr. Pinho shares his diverse career journey, combining clinical practice, payer technology, and entrepreneurship.
In this episode, you will gain insights into:
- Why interoperability remains elusive despite decades of effort (hint: legacy systems + fragmented incentives).
- How standards like SNOMED, LOINC, and ICD-10 evolved and why they often fall short for real-world care.
- What clinicians really need from AI tools (and why trust, not just tech, is key to adoption).
- How ambient listening and NLP are reshaping clinical documentation and enabling better decision-making.
- Why data equity matters and how biases in healthcare documentation can quietly undermine even the best machine learning models.
- Concrete examples of innovation: from COVID test standardization to fall risk modeling using multi-source data.
00:00 Introduction to the Podcast
00:18 Meet Dr. Paulo Pinho
00:36 The Evolution of Healthcare Standards
02:44 Challenges in Data Standardization
06:32 Advances in Medical Knowledge
12:23 AI in Healthcare: Opportunities and Challenges
23:54 The Role of Coding Systems in Healthcare
26:19 Success Stories in Healthcare Technology
40:04 Equity and Access in Healthcare
43:31 Advice for Clinicians and Non-Clinicians in Health IT
48:35 Conclusion and Future Topics
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