Vanguards of Health Care by Bloomberg Intelligence
Episodes
Teva a Generic Giant With Biotech Bite
12 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Drug development has become slower and more expensive despite all the new technology,” says Eric Hughes, executive vice president of Glob...
Aegis Ventures’ Blueprint for Building AI-Native Companies
04 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“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 par...
Beta Bionics Does the Work to Reduce Insulin Pump Burden
20 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“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 ...
Fosun Pharma’s Drive Beyond China
17 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“If you’re not going overseas, you’re going out,” says Dr. Xingli Wang, Co-President of Fosun Pharma. He tells Bloomberg Intel...
ARS Pharma’s Clinical Differentiation
13 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“What you have to do in a market like that, where it’s highly genericized, is first you have to have a clinical differentiation,” sa...
Biolinq Introduces New Silicon Tech Opens Next Chapter of Glucose and Analyte Detection
06 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“In a world where we have so many wearables — smart rings, watches, glucose sensors — it’s challenging to integrate all of thi...
Recapping ESMO, Inside AstraZeneca’s Bold Bet on Antibody Drug Conjugates
27 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We were able to show multiple datasets that actually deliver against this vision that antibody drug conjugates can improve on and therefore dis...
Synchron Can Provide Brain Computer Interface Tech Without the Brain Surgery
23 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The same was in neuro intervention for aneurysms, it was open clipping or it was endovascular. And I think that’s what’s happening ...
Honor Utilizing AI to Scale Home Care, Kinking the Quality Curve Higher
16 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“It’s hard to overemphasize how broken we are in how we care for older adults.” says Seth Sternberg, CEO of Honor. Sternberg joins B...
Orthofix Builds Specialized Portfolio for the Toughest Ortho and Spine Cases
09 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“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...
Onward Medical Revives Hope for SCI
02 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We thought that the folks would only turn on stimulation when they felt faint or lightheaded, but in fact, they’re using the stimulation ...
Viz.ai Taps Artificial Intelligence to Accelerate Point-of-Care Decisions
25 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Doctors don’t want pharma reps to buy them dinner, right? They don’t. They want help in the five minutes that really matter,”...
Inside Exact Science’s Next Big Bet - One Blood Draw, More than 50 Cancers
18 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Our vision as a company is to help eradicate cancer with tests that prevent it, detect it earlier and guide treatment,” says Kevin Conroy...
Moon Surgical Connects with Nvidia to Simplify Surgery with AI
11 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We've been working with NVIDIA for a number of years now and we integrated a medical grade, GPU in our commercial product”, CEO Anne Osdo...
Legend Biotech's Race to Make Cell Therapy Mainstream
09 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Once a scientist, forever a scientist,” says Legend Biotech CEO Ying Huang as he joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Sam Fazeli to share...
AKASA's AI Recovers Millions for Health Systems by Simplifying Complexity
04 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“American medicine is the best in the world, but the American health-care system is not,” Akasa CEO Malinka Walaliyadde says. In this Vang...
From the NIH to ModeX, Dr. Elias Zerhouni on Science, Politics, and Innovation
02 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The worst thing that can happen in health-care and biomedical research is politics getting involved in choosing what research needs to be done for wha...
Zimmer Biomet’s Ivan Tornos is Investing in the Next Chapter of Orthopedics with Arnold
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We are reinventing ourselves. We don’t want to be just a legacy orthopedic company and I think we’re driving with the same enthusia...
Cognito Can Stimulate Brain Activity with Non-Invasive Gamma Waves
22 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“If you can drive the brain’s naturally occurring activity, what you can get is the biologic expression that is important for brains to ma...
HistoSonics Provides Ultrasound Options to Treat Tumors
14 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Unlike radiation therapy that's got toxicity to it as it enters the body and exits the body and leaves large areas of necrotic tissue, histotri...
Inside GHO Capital’s Thesis on Mid-Market Innovation
07 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We don’t just invest — we bring knowledge, network and opportunity,” says Edward De Nor, partner at GHO Capital, as he joins ...
Ultromics Can Find Hard-to-Detect Heart Failure with the Power of AI
31 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“When a patient comes in for a routine outpatient echo, we’ll be able to help with diagnosis and reduce the misdiagnosis at that point, nu...
How the Mark Foundation is Rebuilding the Cancer R&D Model
24 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“I like the label ‘new operating system.’ I think that does capture well what we're trying to do here,” says Dr. Ryan Schoenfe...
Inside .406 Ventures’ Vision for Fixing Health Care’s Hardest Problems
17 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We don’t have to do every great deal, but every deal we do has to be great,” says Payal Agrawal Divakaran, partner at .406 Ventures...
How Machinify’s AI Platform Is Rewriting the Rules of Payer Ops
10 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We truly see ourselves as an operating system for payers,” says David Pierre, CEO of Machinify. Pierre joins Bloomberg Intelligence analy...
Inside Forbion’s M&A-First Playbook for Building Europe’s Biotech Winners
03 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"If a company isn't IPO-ready, it better be M&A-ready," says Nanna Lüneborg of Forbion. She and co-founder Sander Slootweg sit down with Bloo...
Rightway’s Plan to Dismantle the Pharmacy Benefit Monopoly
26 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The PBM space has been worse than some criminal enterprises — they are stealing money from employers and employees,” says Jordan Fe...
Cleerly Aims to Reinvent Coronary Artery Diagnostics with AI
18 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We started Cleerly with the intent to make a comprehensive care pathway for evaluation, education, treatment and tracking for heart disease,&rd...
How AstraZeneca Aims to Stay Ahead in the Race for Oncology Innovation
12 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The thing that I worry about more than loss of exclusivity is this term that I introduced at the AACR meeting -- loss of relevancy" says Susan ...
Overture Aims to Implement Focalplasty as an Early Treatment Option for Osteoarthritis
05 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
OvertureTi is designed in a way that allows you step by step to avoid a total knee [replacement] because it’s so bone-sparing,” Overture O...
Lantheus Builds New Foundation in Prostate Cancer, Other Screenings
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“If you can image it, if you can light it up, then you know where it’s going to go,” Lantheus’ CEO Brian Markison says as he e...
Sanofi’s R&D Head on AI, Franchises and Reinventing R&D for the Long Game
22 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“AI is going to be super transformative... we’ve all moved too slowly and need to speed up our integration.” says Houman Ashrafian, ...
SonderMind Transforming Mental Health with Precision Technology
15 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Mental health care is still living in the mid-20th century,” says Mark Frank, CEO and cofounder of SonderMind. Frank joins Bloomberg Inte...
Inside HealthEdge’s Vision for a Touchless, AI-Powered Claims Future
08 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We want to bring health care to a place where claims are processed in real-time, like checking out on Amazon,” says Stephen Krupa, CEO of...
Humata Health Plans to Make Prior Authorization a Thing of the Past
01 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We exist to solve prior authorization so patients can get the care they deserve,” says Dr. Jeremy Friese, founder and CEO of Humata Healt...
MindMed’s CEO on Psychedelic Breakthroughs for Mental Health
24 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“This isn’t just an incremental shift, it’s a drastically different treatment dynamic,” says Rob Barrow, CEO of MindMed. On th...
From Faxes to FHIR, Zus Health's Vision for Connected Care
17 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Health care is finally ready to operate at information speed,” says Jonathan Bush, co-founder and CEO of Zus Health. Bush joins Bloomberg...
Overjet Uses AI to Make Dentist and Insurance Decisions in Mere Minutes
10 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The idea is you could use AI and technology to help understand this data such that we can quantify it much more so, so that it can lead to much more ...
Tandem Diabetes Sets to Expand Pump Options for Type 2
03 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“Ease of use is what drives adoption,” Tandem Diabetes CEO John Sheridan explains to Bloomberg Intelligence about what can fuel further in...
Model Medicines AI Drug Development
01 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We didn’t start Model to launch a company — we started it because no one else met our standards,” says Dr. Daniel Haders II, ...
Parker Institute’s Quest to Make Immunotherapy Work in Solid Tumors
27 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The most effective therapies for solid tumors are also the most toxic — and we need to fix that,” says Dr. John Connolly, chief sci...
iRhythm’s AI Can Make Arrhythmia Detection More Proactive
20 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Cardiac monitoring “is a space that hasn’t seen disruption or innovation for 50 to 60 years, and we’re trying to disrupt that with o...
Inside Arcellx's Revolutionary Approach to Cell Therapy
13 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The first decision I had to make when I joined was whether to continue this anito-cel progam that now looks to be potentially best-in-class in myelom...
How Centivo is Reshaping Employer-Sponsored Health Plans
07 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We decided to come to the table with a health-plan model that enables what we like to call radical affordability,” said Ashok Subramanian...
Absci Leveraging Gen AI for Best-in-Class Antibodies
27 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“As US biotech companies, how do we continue to differentiate and create novel breakthrough assets? I think it’s leveraging AI,” sai...
How Capital Rx is Fixing America’s Broken Drug Pricing
20 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The mission of Capital Rx is to give our country the infrastructure we need for the healthcare we deserve." AJ Loiacono, CEO and co-founder of Capita...
Eleos Health's AI-Powered Platform is Reshaping Behavioral Care
13 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"The conversation is the treatment in behavioral health, but clinicians spend too much time documenting instead of caring,” says Alon Joffe, CEO...
Truveta Unlocks the Power of Data to Help Solve Industry's Biggest Challenges
06 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“There’s no digital feedback loop in health care, you have it in Tesla, in Netflix, in Amazon — but not in the industry that impacts...
Insights from GSK's Chief Scientist on the Role of Technology in R&D
30 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
"We talk about the S-curve for technology and in the past we've said it can be 10 or 20 years before you reach the top. I think what's going to be rea...
LRVHealth Looks to the Next Chapter of Health Care's Evolution Driven by Unique Partnerships
23 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“We sit at the intersection of those large-scale incumbents and entrepreneurs, to help bridge the gap,” Josh Flum, managing partner at LRV...
Soda Health's Tech Forward Approach to Optimizing Benefits Starts With a Smart Platform
16 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
“The average benefit value for supplemental benefits was about $155 per member. Five years later, it was over $1,500 per member,” Robby Kn...
Sequel Develops Novel Insulin Delivery System in Next Wave of Diabetes Innovation
05 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Sequel is combining the experience of its four co-founders to develop the next generation of insulin pumps, aiming to provide better delivery capabili...
Delfi Diagnostics Marries Fragmentomics, Machine Learning in Cancer Detection
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Our mission is to make cancer less deadly through widely accessible next-generation early-detection blood tests.” Susan Tousi, CEO of Delfi Diagn...
Insulet Sees Long Ramp Treating Type 2 Diabetes with Omnipod 5
14 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Insulet’s Omnipod 5 automated insulin delivery (AID) system has avenues to expand as it’s revolutionized the way patients treat their diabetes, in...
Reimagining Early Stage Investing with Define Ventures
07 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“When I looked at the industry, I saw a real opportunity set to build a best-in-class sector-focused fund,” Lynne Chou O’Keefe, founder and mana...
ClearPoint MR Focus Alters Brain Cases
31 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ClearPoint Neuro is changing brain surgery by developing a suite of new magnetic resonance (MR) navigation technology that aids minimally invasive pro...
ResMed’s Ecosystem Fights Sleep Apnea
24 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ResMed’s leadership in sleep apnea stems from the combination of its digital-health ecosystem and new hardware to pair with smartwatches and wearabl...
Guardant Health's Tests Are Pioneering a Shift in Precision Oncology
17 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Our liquid biopsy test alone, we estimate one in four cancer patients in the US are getting it,” Helmy Eltoukhy, cofounder and co-CEO of Guardant...
Radical Catheter Upends Old Technology
10 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Radical Catheter Technologies has developed a new design of catheters that takes ribbon technology of different stiffness (and colors straight out of ...
BioNTech's Richardson on Drug Pipeline
03 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
BioNTech has a broad and diversified cancer drug pipeline extending well beyond mRNA based approaches. Sam Fazeli, Senior Health Care Analyst, speaks ...
Tempus Transforming Care, Drug Discovery with AI
26 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“Tempus is focused on the idea of bringing technology, and in particular artificial intelligence, to diagnostics by essentially combining a molecula...
Paragon28’s Smart Options for the Foot
19 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Paragon28 is entering the next chapter of foot and ankle surgery by developing enabling technology that customizes the procedure to the patient and el...
GSK's ViiV HIV Mission
12 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
ViiV Healthcare's Head of R&D, Dr. Kimberly Smith, meets with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst John Murphy to discuss the evolution of HIV th...
Heartbeat Health Solves Cardiology Access Problems With A Decentralized Platform
05 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"If all goes well, Heartbeat Health will be a household name for the first referral from primary care for cardiology. It'll be easier than everyone ...
Generate Integrating AI into Biologics
23 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Generate Biomedicines’ proprietary platform aims to use generative biology to upend traditional drug development across therapeutic protein modaliti...
AVS Brings New Approach to Lithotripsy
15 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
AVS aims to redefine intravascular lithotripsy with its Pulse IVL System, which utilizes hydraulics technology to fracture calcified lesions and expan...
Think Surgical’s Handheld Robotics
08 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Think Surgical’s handheld robotic device miniaturizes the level of precision and accuracy orthopedic doctors expect from conventional, bigger surgic...
Asensus’ CEO on AI and Robotic Surgery
25 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Asensus Surgical plans to develop augmented intelligence capabilities that digitize surgery to lower variabilities during procedures, drive better res...
AI and Drug Discovery With Harren Jhoti
18 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Artificial intelligence is touching all aspects of drug development with a lot of focus, and potential noise, on the early stages of drug discovery. I...
Eko Updates 200-Year-Old Stethoscopes
11 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Eko Health realized that the one tool that every doctor has on their neck, the stethoscope, has not been updated for 200 years, and designed a way for...
Onward Medical Data Promising for SCI
02 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Onward Medical is driving the path to help paraplegics with spinal cord injuries (SCI) regain their lives, including one patient who is now able to pl...
Canary Speech Revolutionizing Disease Detection with Vocal Biomarkers
27 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
"We analyze vocal biomarkers in near real time and correlate that to a clinical diagnosis and create an algorithm that then can independently identi...
EDAP’s Robot Treats Prostate Cancer
20 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
EDAP can treat prostate cancer by focusing ultrasound waves at just the target region, similar to how a magnify glass can focus light from the sun so ...
Haemonetics Diversifies Into New Form
13 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Haemonetics, a medical-device maker that focuses on markets including blood and plasma collection, is evolving to expand broadly with more diversifica...
OrthoPediatrics’ Focus on Helping Kids
06 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
OrthoPediatrics’ aspiration is to develop anatomically appropriate implants, instruments and specialized braces for children, so surgeons don’t ne...
Personify Health Pioneering Personalized Care Through AI
30 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“We’re staking the company on personalization: If you can make the health-care experience more personal to the individual, they’ll be more likel...
Bolt Brings iOS Tech to Spine Surgery
23 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Bolt Navigation has shrunk the use of a navigation system for spine surgery into an Apple iOS device, using the gyroscope-on-chip technology to make s...
Alto Is Aiming to Redefine Psychiatry
16 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Modern medicine hasn’t made big strides in managing psychiatric disorders, a growing challenge with global implications. “The treatment of psychia...
Vericel Advances Use of Cell Therapies
10 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Vericel acquired a hidden gem in cartilage repair that other companies had written off, and developed it into a high-growth product that could potenti...
Moderna’s Hoge on the Next Round of Innovations in mRNA
02 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Stephen Hoge, Moderna’s head of R&D, joined the Vanguards of Health Care podcast to share his insights on the company’s groundbreaking wor...
Waltz Health on Rewiring the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain
25 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“We’re here to lower the cost of prescription drugs for every American,” Mark Thierer, CEO of Waltz Health explains to Bloomberg Intelligence in...
GeneDx Betting on the Future of Exome and Genome Testing
18 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“We are driving the market to exome and genome testing with a goal of making multigene panels be a thing of the past” Katherine Stueland, CEO of G...
Penumbra Not Done Adapting in Thrombectomy
11 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Penumbra keeps a two-page list of key thrombectomy opportunities and technologies to innovate that allows it to keep transforming, presently with its ...
Dexcom's Stelo Expands CGMs to Non-Insulin Type 2
04 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dexcom is expanding its portfolio of continuous glucose monitors (CGMs) with the launch of Stelo, balancing the needs of patients and payors to maximi...
Enovis Has Heft to Be Nimble in Ortho
28 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Enovis is well positioned in the orthopedic market, combining small-cap focus on product innovation with large-cap functionality, CEO Matt Trerotola t...
Ro's Foundational Weight Loss Bet Looks to Build on Consumer Success
14 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
When Wegovy was approved in 2021, patients began inquiring about whether Ro could build a product that would give them the “Ro experience” in weig...
A Butterfly Effect for Ultrasound
07 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Butterfly Network looks to streamline the ultrasound workflow and disrupt the incumbent market with its portable ultrasound technology that uses semic...
Included Health Seeks to Deliver More Healthy Days
29 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“People who engage with an Included clinician experienced an average of two additional healthy days per month,” Owen Tripp, CEO of Included Health...
CathWorks’ Netflix-Like Coronary Model
22 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
CathWorks has developed a mapping platform for coronary arteries that streamlines cases, with a subscription model that can potentially accelerate its...
Element Biosciences Looks to Go Beyond Just Sequencing with AVITI
15 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
“We started this company looking at the current genomics field and evaluating the gap we’re trying to fill,” Molly He, CEO and co-founder of Ele...
IRhythm’s AI Helps Detect Arrhythmias
06 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
IRhythm Technologies’ Zio ambulatory cardiac monitors have the potential to change how doctors screen for irregular heartbeats by combining miniatur...
Caira’s New Vision for Knee Surgery
25 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Caira Surgical is innovating radar technology to make it precise enough for use in navigating surgeons through knee-replacement procedures, where ever...
Insulet Leads Insulin-Patch Pump Drive
05 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Insulet is disrupting how patients can treat their diabetes, capitalizing on its differentiated Omnipod on-the-body delivery technology, CEO Jim Holli...
J&J Expands Robotic Tools for Surgeons
20 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Johnson & Johnson has multiple robotic development projects that are set to expand its market-leading position in advanced surgical technology, Ha...
Stereotaxis Brings Robotics to Cardio
14 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Stereotaxis is developing robotic capabilities to enhance procedures for treating atrial fibrillation, with several innovations in the works. In this ...
Podimetrics on Preventing Amputations
05 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Amputation is never a desired outcome. That’s why Podimetrics is working on innovations, as well as public awareness, around early detection of diab...
Apree Health's New Approach to Integrated Care Networks
30 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"This decade will be defined by the affordability crisis and our vision as a company is to solve the affordability crisis in US healthcare," apree hea...
Eddii Has Full Diabetes-Support Suite
22 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Eddii is driving its diabetes-management technology around the concept that patients require emotional support as much as a glucose reading, cofounder...
Blue Shield of California Tackling Pharmacy Care with a New Model
09 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
“It was pretty clear as we looked at pharmacy-cost trends that where we were and where we were trying to go was just unsustainable,” Paul Markovic...
Quantum Health Simplifies Patient's Health Care Journey
24 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
"We're the only ones in navigation that engage directly with all providers to use health signals from both members and providers to create next best s...