“You show me the incentive and I’ll show you the behavior,” says Sach Jain, founder and CEO of Carrum Health. Jain joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Jonathan Palmer to explain why misaligned incentives sit at the heart of specialty care’s cost problem. Jain details how Carrum built a value-based marketplace around curated centers of excellence, surgeon-level quality data, bundled payments and provider risk, giving employers more predictable costs while offering patients a guided care path with fewer surprise bills. He also discusses specialty care’s $2.5 trillion annual spending, Carrum’s reach across almost 7 million lives, its expanding health-plan partnerships and why AI can either intensify the fee-for-service arms race or help providers prevent complications when incentives are aligned.

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“It’s not just gonna be about image quality. It’s gonna be about image quality and interpretation”, Butterfly Network’s CEO Joe DeVivo explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. In this Vanguards of Healthcare podcast episode, DeVivo sits down with BI analyst Matt Henriksson for an in-depth interview to talk about Ultrasound-on-Chip imaging module and the potential of using semiconductor chips to streamline ultrasound as point-of-care option that allows immediate scans and diagnostics. They also discuss the development of Butterfly’s Apollo, a machine designed to be 20x more powerful than its current iQ3 that will create images closer to how the anatomy looks and power its recently announced partnership with Midjourney for a full-body tomographic-imaging machine that utilizes Butterfly’s Ultrasound-on-Chip imaging modules.

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“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?’” says Farid Vij, co-founder and CEO of Citizen Health. Vij joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Jonathan Palmer to explain how Citizen Health is building an AI-powered advocate for patients with rare and complex diseases. He discusses the company’s mission to aggregate longitudinal health data, support caregivers, accelerate research and create a future where personalized guidance replaces one-size-fits-all medicine.

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“It’s designed to be simple in a way, even though it’s an incredibly complex device”, Distalmotion CEO Greg Roche explains to Bloomberg Intelligence. In this Vanguards of Health Care podcast episode, Roche sits down with BI analyst Matt Henriksson for an in-depth interview on the company, how its Dexter Robotic Surgery System and single-use instrument platform differentiates itself from others in the robotic market and how it can shorten the learning curve that can increase adoption of robots in ambulatory surgical centers.

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“Neuroscience is what oncology was 20 years ago,” says Cristian Massacesi, Chief Medical Officer and Head of Development at Bristol Myers Squibb. Massacesi joins Bloomberg Intelligence pharmaceuticals analyst Sam Fazeli to discuss Bristol Myers’ push into neuroscience, including Alzheimer’s therapies aimed at tau, a protein tied to brain tangles in the disease. They also explore the company’s oncology pipeline, including PD-L1/VEGF bispecifics, next-generation antibody-drug conjugates and advances in multiple myeloma. Massacesi explains how Bristol is balancing internal innovation with external partnerships and why AI could fundamentally change the economics and success rates of drug development.

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“If you plan, the cases can go much more smoothly. And if you have patient-specific instrumentation, they can go much more quickly” says restor3D’s CEO Kurt Jacobus in this episode of Vanguards of Healthcare. He sat down with BI analyst Matt Henriksson to elaborate on personalized orthopedic implants, outlining how the win then for the surgeon is the capacity to complete more cases, with better patient outcomes reputationally, and the win for the facility is getting another case into the operating room.

The in-depth interview covered restor3D’s AI planning and 3D printing capabilities, its path in integrating the Conformis acquisition to allow it to compete against larger companies in the knee-replacement market and the upcoming launch of its patient app. He also discussed how his drive to use technology to solve problems led him from the consulting world to leading medtech companies.

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“I think it’s the most exciting period in cancer discovery and development that I’ve experienced over the last 25 years,” says Susan Galbraith, executive vice president of oncology R&D at AstraZeneca. Galbraith joins Bloomberg Intelligence analyst Sam Fazeli fresh from the ASCO conference to unpack how ctDNA, earlier intervention and next-generation oncology platforms could reshape cancer care. They discuss AstraZeneca’s Stride regimen in liver cancer, Serena-6 in breast cancer, progress in pancreatic cancer and the company’s push across ADCs, bispecifics, CAR-T and radio conjugates.

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“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 up going blind. By far the most expensive disease in the world is blindness and the reason for that is really quite simple. It’s because the mortality doesn’t change, the use of resources skyrockets, but the mortality doesn’t change. In this country, every blind patient costs over $66,000 a year,” says Pravin Dugel, CEO of Ocular Therapeutix. “If we reduce that dropout rate by even 10% with Axpaxli, and I’m sure we’ll do even better, we’re talking about a quarter million fewer patients in this country alone who will not go blind. The impact of that, not just on a human basis but on an economic basis, is astronomical.” In this episode of the Vanguards of Healthcare podcast, Pravin sits down with Bloomberg Intelligence senior analyst Ann-Hunter van Kirk to discuss how the company can reduce the therapeutic and economic burden of retinal diseases.

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