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“We’re staking the company on personalization: If you can make the health-care experience more personal to the individual, they’ll be more likely to engage around their health care and take the proper actions to get better outcomes,” Chris Michalak, CEO of Personify Health, tells Bloomberg Intelligence in this episode of the Vanguards of Health Care podcast. Michalak joins BI analyst Jonathan Palmer to discuss the merger of Virgin Pulse and HealthComp, the company’s AI-driven personalization engine and the value proposition for employers. The conversation also covers Personify’s approach to consolidation in health care, the role of navigation and the impact of GLP-1 drugs on the market.
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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 spinal fusion cases more accurate in any surgery setting, CEO Patrick West says. In this episode of Bloomberg Intelligence’s Vanguards of Health Care podcast, West sits down with BI analyst Matt Henriksson to talk about how the Bolt Navigation Unit leverages the gyroscope and an X-ray acquired once the patient is positioned for pedicle screw placement, with no special imaging required during the procedure. West goes on to say how this technology can penetrate ambulatory surgical centers, that can perform simple spinal fusion cases without a robot they may not be able to afford
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Modern medicine hasn’t made big strides in managing psychiatric disorders, a growing challenge with global implications. “The treatment of psychiatric disorders hasn’t changed from what it was like 30 years ago, medications are given by trial and error and we don’t really know what’s going to work,” Amit Etkin, CEO of Alto Neuroscience, tells Bloomberg Intelligence in this episode of the Vanguards of Health Care podcast. BI senior health-care associate Jean Rivera Irizarry joins Dr. Etkin for an in-depth interview about Alto, how it was formed, its drug-selection process and how the company aims to redefine the way we treat such disorders.
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Vericel acquired a hidden gem in cartilage repair that other companies had written off, and developed it into a high-growth product that could potentially address a $4 billion market. In this episode of the Vanguards of Health Care podcast, Vericel CEO Nick Colangelo sits down with Matt Henriksson, Bloomberg Intelligence analyst, to talk about how MACI took over as the market leader for cartilage repair in the knee and its potential to do so for the ankle. Colangelo also discusses why the company built a diversified portfolio and how NexoBrid complements its Epicel platform to fill out the company’s burn-care offerings.
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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 work in messenger RNA. In this episode, Dr. Hoge and Bloomberg Intelligence’s Sam Fazeli take listeners into an in-depth conversation on how Covid was just the start of using mRNA as a way of treating disease. They also discuss Moderna’s cancer trials and its approach to rare diseases. 
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“We’re here to lower the cost of prescription drugs for every American,” Mark Thierer, CEO of Waltz Health explains to Bloomberg Intelligence in this episode of the Vanguards of Health Care podcast. Thierer joins BI senior health care analyst Jonathan Palmer to discuss Waltz’s Marketplace Search solutions for pharmacies and payers and why the upcoming launch of its Intelligent Specialty Engine is a game changer. He also shares his insights into the latest trends affecting the PBM industry.
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