Paul Swider

About Paul Swider

30 years building tools that add hours back to a clinician\'s dayCEO at RealActivity | AI Pioneer | BOSHUG Founder | Microsoft KeynoterI\'ve spent my career at the intersection of healthcare and technology, not talking about AI transformation, but actually building it. In 2001, I designed a symbolic AI triage engine that eliminated pre-op anesthesia visits and accelerated same-day surgery pathways.In 2025, my team shipped Wheelhouse Frontier the world\'s first frontier model fine-tuned on PeopleSoft healthcare operations data and executive prompt workflows.What happened in between? I trained engineers across GE, IDX, and Microsoft in enterprise software patterns. I migrated 50+ HIPAA workloads to Azure. I built the CMS compliance and activity reporting platforms that health systems still rely on. I earned Microsoft MVP recognition and was named Azure Most Influential, not for evangelism, but for implementation.Today I\'m CEO & Chief AI Officer at RealActivity, a boutique Microsoft partner delivering mission-critical AI for academic medical centers and health systems across the Northeast. Our focus: tracking system wide clinical time (cFTE), CMS complaint AI, and improving operational efficiency, the problems that keep CMOs and CMIOs up at night. I\'m also the founder of OCS Labs, an AI lab building industry-specific AI for government, and sectors where getting it wrong isn\'t an option.I founded BOSHUG, the Boston Healthcare Cloud & AI Community, which has grown into a global network serving 40k. I\'m a Cloud Wars healthcare AI analyst, a top 3% rated global speaker (Microsoft Ignite, Cloud Wars, and beyond).Global citizen based in Greater Boston, near MIT and Harvard. When I\'m not building healthcare AI, you\'ll find me at a Sicilian bakery arguing about lemon cake, sailing, snowboarding, diving, or planning the next adventure.

Experience

1. Analyst Practitioner - Emerging Healthcare and Hls Technologies

   Cloud Wars

   Nov 2021 — Present · Boston, MA, US

   Distinguished Analyst Practitioner specializing in Emerging Healthcare and Health and Life Sciences (HLS) Technologies. With a profound curiosity and expertise in analyzing and interpreting complex technological innovations, Paul excels at the intersection of healthcare and technology.

Education

• Champlain College

  Associate of Science - AS, Computer and Information Sciences, General

  1992 — 1994

• Hawaii Pacific University

  Bachelor of Science - BS, Computer Programming

  1989 — 1992

Skills

• T-Sql
• Wf
• Business Intelligence
• Web Parts
• Html
• C#
• .net
• Travel
• Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server
• Blockchain
• Business Software
• Mobile Technology
• Powershell
• International Business
• Public Speaking
• Web Development
• Microsoft Technologies
• Dynamics 365 Portals
• Smart Contracts
• Social Computing
• Healthcare
• Yammer
• Iis
• Microsoft Products
• Project Server
• Enterprise Content Management
• Vb.net
• Training
• Sharepoint
• Silverlight
• Business Applications
• Web Applications
• Cloud Security
• Sailing
• Windows Sharepoint Services
• Healthcare Analytics
• Information Architecture
• Ssrs
• Entrepreneurship
• Microsoft Coco