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Vanguards of Healthcare by Bloomberg Intelligence
Vanguards of Healthcare is a series of exclusive conversations with management teams and thought leaders discussing changes on the forefront of the industry, including innovations in medical products and technologies, advances in clinical research, new service models, wellness and regulations.
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Happy Health Develops a Wearable that Can Drive Healthcare Decision Making
“We wanted to be kind of the catalyst of collision between these two worlds, bringing wearable devices with all of their simplicity and the…
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Field Medical Develops New PFA Tech to Treat More Patients
“We don’t have any purpose-built technologies for the treatment of VT (ventricular tachycardia), and when I had a chance to look at what Field was…
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Tandem Diabetes’ Pump Portfolio Has Rubber Hitting the Floor
“If you look at the tubeless market, you know, we're seeing growth rates in excess of 25% annually,” Tandem Diabetes CEO John Sheridan explains to…
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Cityblock Health Reimagines Care for Those Left Behind
“It’s not about the technology itself, it’s about the form factor,” says Dr. Toyin Ajayi, co-founder and CEO of Cityblock Health. She…
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Natera’s Billion-Dollar R&D Bet on the Future of Cancer Testing
“Clinical data is the key to being successful in diagnostics,” Steve Chapman, CEO of Natera, tells Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Jonathan Palmer…
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Resmed’s Expanding Within Sleep Health
“I almost think of, you know, cardiovascular disease, diabetes, and these other areas as verticals. Sleep is a horizontal and it can impact all of the…
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Datavant is Building the Data Layer AI Needs in Healthcare
“Only about 7% of healthcare data is available to the frontier models,” says Kyle Armbrester, CEO of Datavant. He joins Bloomberg Intelligence…
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FocalTherics Incorporates Therapeutic Ultrasound Across an Expanding List of Pathologies
“HIFU (high intensity focal ultrasound) is very valuable as a therapeutic treatment, but histotripsy may have some added value. We can develop a platform…
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Stryker Recipe For Market Leading Growth Starts With Its Culture and Learnings
“Whenever you look at these adjacencies…these are areas that we think plays to Stryker’s strengths, we have some innate know-how or some…
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Think Surgical Miniaturizes it Robot to Broaden Its Use in Knees
“Our approach is to miniaturize the robot, make it more economical and make it more seamless in terms of how it integrates into the operating room…
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Novartis Puts Biology Before Modality in Its Next R&D Chapter
“We don't want to follow the crowd, we want to steer our own path into what we think are the most exciting opportunities for patients.” says Fiona…
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Innovaccer’s Bet on the Data Layer Powering Autonomous Healthcare
“Your doctor has more outdated technology than your Uber driver does,” Abhinav Shashank, co-founder and CEO of Innovaccer, tells Bloomberg…
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Vektor Medical Applies AI to ECGs to Expand Arrhythmia Treatment Pathway
“We started using AI to enhance algorithms and software to better be able to understand the data that’s in each patient’s ECG. And our goal…
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ProKidney Aims to Stave Off Dialysis
“Our focus is really on patients who’ve lost a lot of kidney function, 70 to 75% or even 80% of their kidney function,” says Bruce Culleton…
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Why HC9 Believes Operators Make Better Venture Investors
“We are not a passive capital partner.” Richard Lungen of HC9 Ventures, joins fellow co-founder and general partner Charlie Falcone to explain why…
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SR One Highlights Biotech's Latest Comeback Cycle
“I think this is an incredible time to be investing in biotech.” Dr. Simeon George, founder and CEO of SR One, joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst…
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Carrum Health Is Rewiring Specialty Care Around Value
“You show me the incentive and I’ll show you the behavior,” says Sach Jain, founder and CEO of Carrum Health. Jain joins Bloomberg…
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Butterfly Leads the Drive on Semiconductor to Make the Most Out of Ultrasound
“It’s not just gonna be about image quality. It’s gonna be about image quality and interpretation”, Butterfly Network’s CEO Joe…
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Citizen Health’s Plan to Put an AI Advocate in Every Patient’s Pocket
“The number one thing that results in a better outcome for someone who is sick is actually, ‘Do you have an advocate on your side?’&rdquo…
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Distalmotion’s Approach to Spread Surgical Robots to More
“It’s designed to be simple in a way, even though it’s an incredibly complex device”, Distalmotion CEO Greg Roche explains to Bloomberg…
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Bristol Myers on Why Neuroscience Could Be the Next Oncology
“Neuroscience is what oncology was 20 years ago,” says Cristian Massacesi, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Development at Bristol Myers Squibb…
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Restor3D Combines AI with 3D Printing to Create Personalized Ortho Solutions
“If you plan, the cases can go much more smoothly. And if you have patient-specific instrumentation, they can go much more quickly” says…
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AstraZeneca’s ASCO Readout on Oncology’s Next Wave
“I think it’s the most exciting period in cancer discovery and development that I’ve experienced over the last 25 years,” says Susan…
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Ocular Therapeutix Cuts Blindness Toll
“Forty percent of patients in this country alone in the first year drop out [of current retinal disease treatments] and every one of those patients ends…
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IRhythm Pushes a Proactive Approach to Monitoring
“We’re seeing it already to much more of a preventative proactive monitoring to find these things earlier in the patient journeys and help…
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Pulse Biosciences Brings Differentiated Nanosecond Technology to PFA
Based on long-term results, “the effectiveness of that nanosecond pulse electric field begins to look as if it is a step function ahead of first…
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RTW’s Rod Wong on Biotech’s Revival and the Global Shift
“I think this is going to be the most eventful ASCO for biotech in a while,” says Dr. Roderick Wong, founder of RTW Investments, referring to the…
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Cortica’s Plan to Bring Value-Based Care to Autism
“It’s crazy to think that that would be the expectation in cancer care, yet we expect that of families in autism,” says Neil Hattangadi, CEO…
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Xontogeny's Case for Drug Developers Over Storytellers
“More than half of your time as a public company CEO is devoted to things that are not drug development,” Xontogeny CEO Chris Garabedian says…
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Roivant’s Playbook for Finding Value Others Miss in Biotech
“In biotech, all of the ideas sound amazing and most of them don’t work.” Roivant CEO Matt Gline joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Sam…
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Virta Health’s Push to Reverse Metabolic Disease at Scale
“We cannot fix a food problem with drugs,” says Sami Inkinen, CEO and co-founder of Virta Health. Inkinen joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst…
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Athenahealth's Strategic Reset, Push for Speed in Ambulatory Care
“We’re never moving fast enough,” says Bob Segert, CEO of Athenahealth. Segert joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Jonathan Palmer to…
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Inside Insilico Medicine’s AI Strategy and Lilly Breakthrough
“This deal [with Eli Lilly, announced on Sunday 29 March] is a combination of an asset licensing and collaboration. We’ve collaborated with Lilly…
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Abridge Moving AI From Scribing to Clinical Workflows
“I think 2026 is the year of fundamental, agentic transformation of the workflow.” Abridge co-founder and CTO Zack Lipton joins Bloomberg…
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7Wire's Jaffee on the Hard Truths Behind Health-Tech Investing
“In health care, in order to drive the biggest impact, the biggest outcomes and the biggest exits, you really have to engage the end consumer,&rdquo…
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Xaira’s War on Trial-and-Error Drug Development
“Nothing excites me as much as the potential for AI,” Xaira CEO Marc Tessier-Lavigne tells Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Sam Fazeli on this…
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AVS’ Toland on Next Lithotripsy Launch
“IVL in general is an enabler for physicians to do very complex procedures — it’s simple, it’s easy to use and it’s safe. So even…
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Halle Tecco on AI, Boom-Bust Cycles and Building Better Care
“I wake up every day wanting to make health care better,” says Halle Tecco, founder of Rock Health and author of Massively Better Healthcare. Tecco…
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Highridge Goes Private to Expand Differentiated Offering in Spine
“Being privately held and being a pure play spine company has given us the focus, the resourcing and the investment we need to, to really take this thing…
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Dexcom Aims to Expand CGM Benefits to All Diabetic Patients and Beyond
“We’re going to continue to drive innovation across the entire product portfolio, which also includes how we manufacture sensors,” Dexcom CEO…
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AliveCor’s Priya Abani Uses Amazon Experience to Democratize ECG Tech
“We’re empowering health-care providers with unprecedented clinical depth in a compact portable form factor,” AliveCor CEO Priya Abani says…
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John Maraganore Reflects on the Long Game of RNAi and Drug Innovation
“I suspect that RNAi-based medicines will approach, rival, maybe even exceed what we’ve seen with monoclonal antibodies historically,” says…
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Carlsmed Personalizes Spine with AI
“One of our busy surgeons said, when they do an aprevo procedure, it’s a boring day in the OR and that’s actually a good thing,&rdquo…
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Precision Cardiology With Cytokinetics
“Now we’re seeing how there are new medicines that act directly on the heart itself and less on downstream consequences of heart disease,&rdquo…
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Transcarent’s Bet on AI and the End of Healthcare Scarcity
“Health care creates friction everywhere — copays, approvals, pre-authorizations — and none of that matters when someone you love needs help…
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Sofinnova Partners Stays Optimistic on Biotech's Future
Despite all the noise -- tariffs, regulation, geopolitics -- the fundamentals are amazing, because our companies save people’s lives and the demand for…
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Smarter Technologies’ Blueprint for AI-Driven Revenue Cycle Management
“Revenue cycle is really about solving two problems: generating an accurate receipt and then jumping through the fifty hoops to get paid.” says Dr…
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Merck’s GHI Fund and the Push to Rewire Pharma's Future
“Our mission is to create both strategic and financial returns by backing scalable technologies that can transform how biopharma operates.” Bill…
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Zymeworks on Rethinking Risk, Royalties and R&D
“We were a very valuable deep-science company that had the wrong business strategy,” Zymeworks CEO Ken Galbraith tells Bloomberg Intelligence…
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Penumbra Builds Clinical Support Showing Computer Assistance Can Better Address Clot
Vanguards of Health Care: Penumbra Expands CAVT Awareness “With pulmonary embolism, just like with stroke and some other things, where there’s an…
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Teva a Generic Giant With Biotech Bite
“Drug development has become slower and more expensive despite all the new technology,” says Eric Hughes, executive vice president of Global R&D…
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Aegis Ventures’ Blueprint for Building AI-Native Companies
“AI agents are at the knee of the curve in terms of where things are headed,” says John Beadle, Aegis Ventures co-founder and managing partner. In…
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Beta Bionics Does the Work to Reduce Insulin Pump Burden
“In the case of iLet, we're going to say, this is how much insulin they're getting for what they consider to be a usual meal. And we learn that and we…
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Fosun Pharma’s Drive Beyond China
“If you’re not going overseas, you’re going out,” says Dr. Xingli Wang, Co-President of Fosun Pharma. He tells Bloomberg…
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ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation
“What you have to do in a market like that, where it’s highly genericized, is first you have to have a clinical differentiation,” says…
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Biolinq Introduces New Silicon Tech Opens Next Chapter of Glucose and Analyte Detection
“In a world where we have so many wearables — smart rings, watches, glucose sensors — it’s challenging to integrate all of this…
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Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates
“We were able to show multiple datasets that actually deliver against this vision that antibody drug conjugates can improve on and therefore displace…
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Synchron Can Provide Brain Computer Interface Tech Without the Brain Surgery
“The same was in neuro intervention for aneurysms, it was open clipping or it was endovascular. And I think that’s what’s happening in BCI…
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Honor Utilizing AI to Scale Home Care, Kinking the Quality Curve Higher
“It’s hard to overemphasize how broken we are in how we care for older adults.” says Seth Sternberg, CEO of Honor. Sternberg joins Bloomberg…
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Orthofix Builds Specialized Portfolio for the Toughest Ortho and Spine Cases
“When we talk about spine, having 7D, which is a highly differentiable product for deformities, I think it’s giving us the basis to become a real…