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Cell and gene therapies present an enormous opportunity for patients – the ability to insert or adapt genetic material is a true breakthrough for precision medicine and brings hope to those with previously incurable diseases. However, bringing these therapies to patients comes with enormous complexity – from research and approval through manufacturing and administration. In this episode, Jen and Mindy are joined by special guests Karen Baldry and Rebecca Sisselman to discuss the opportunities cell and gene therapies present, the challenges industry partners may be facing, and key considerations for navigating towards success.

For a recent example of Vynamic’s work in cell and gene therapy, check out our case study “Market Access Capability Analysis & Process Mapping for a Cell and Gene Therapy (CGT) Biotech”

Podcast Tags: healthcare, life sciences, cell and gene therapy, gene therapy, rare disease, drug launch

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• Eight imperatives for launching cell and gene therapies
• Why Integrated Partners are Critical to Cell and Gene Therapy Success
• Untangling the Complexities of Cell and Gene Therapy Clinical Trials: A Supply Chain Perspective

Panel – Karen Baldry, Rebecca Sisselman, Mindy McGrath, Jen Burke

Research & Production – Marc Young, Jen Burke

Recording & Editing – Mike Liberto, Rachel Skonecki

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In this episode, Jack, Ollie, and Jen discuss some recent EU-based newsworthy items, including the importance of ethnicity data and its impact on healthcare systems (0.35), exciting and emerging retail health opportunities (8.08), and a landmark report calling for urgent investment in digital health literacy (16.20).

Podcast Tags: healthcare, healthcare news, life sciences, ethnicity, DEI, WHO, Retail Health, Digital, Digital Health, health policy, public health

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• Hidden in plain sight: addition of race and ethnicity improves clinical algorithm performance
• The problem with ethnicity categories in UK health data
• How can we make better use of ethnicity data to improve healthcare services?
• Healthcare AI Caution: Addressing ethnic health inequalities
• How can we make better use of ethnicity data to improve healthcare services?
• AI in healthcare could exacerbate ethnic and income inequalities, scientists warn
• The health of people from ethnic minority groups in England
• Understanding consistency of ethnicity data recorded in health-related administrative datasets in England: 2011 to 2021
• One-stop shop: Where healthcare meets retail
• Retail Healthcare Continues to Consolidate in Europe
• Boots boss calls for data sharing between pharmacies and the NHS
• The Future of Retail Health and the New Healthcare Experience
• UK public becoming more comfortable with healthcare in retail settings
• High Street giant Boots is taking digital healthcare to the people
• Many people on Medicare lack internet access and digital literacy, and it’s harming their health. How some groups are addressing the problem
• Statement – We are on the cusp of a digital health revolution yet millions risk being left behind
• Digital health divide: only 1 in 2 countries in Europe and central Asia have policies to improve digital health literacy, leaving millions behind
• Millions left behind by a lack of regulation on improving digital health literacy
• WHO Europe Calls for Urgent Investment in Digital Health Literacy
• Safety of telehealth and digital health services is being neglected, says WHO Europe

Panel –Jack Young, Jen Burke, Ollie May

Research & Production – Jack Young, Karan Pandya, Ollie May

Recording & Editing – Mike Liberto, Rachel Skonecki

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Artificial intelligence (AI) has become a hot topic this year with the rapid adoption of ChatGPT, a powerful generative language model that was released late last year. In this special Trending News US episode, Jen, Ryan, and Mindy are joined by Vynamic’s Todd Quartiere to discuss the latest news when it comes to AI in the health industry.

Podcast Tags: healthcare, artificial intelligence, ChatGPT, health services, life sciences, health technology

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• QuantHealth brings its AI-informed clinical drug trials to the US with $15M round
• Google Cloud, HCA team up to deploy AI in the emergency department
• AWS rolls out generative AI service for healthcare documentation software
• Epic taps Microsoft to accelerate generative AI-powered 'copilot' tools to help clinicians save time
• BLUE CROSS BLUE SHIELD OF MASSACHUSETTS USES ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE TO SPEED REVIEW TIME, AUTOMATE AUTHORIZATIONS & ELIMINATE ADMINISTRATIVE COSTS
• Shaping A Responsible AI-Powered Future In Life Science
• How machine-learning models can amplify inequities in medical diagnosis and treatment
• ChatGPT’s Performance Found Lacking on Cancer Treatment Recommendations
• Generative AI brings great potential—and risks—to payer space

Panel – Todd Quartiere, Ryan Hummel, Mindy McGrath, Jen Burke

Research & Production – Anna Briccetti, Natalie Blahunka, Jen Burke

Recording & Editing – Mike Liberto, Rachel Skonecki, Mindy McGrath

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As healthcare providers incorporate an expanding landscape of technologies and strive to meet patient expectations in the post-pandemic world, the standards of healthcare delivery are rapidly changing. The typical point of care experience for patients is shifting beyond the hospital, as facilities begin to prioritize digitization, AI-informed decision making, and operational efficiency. In this episode, Jen and Mindy are joined by Vynamic’s Head of Provider Sector, Ryan Hummel, as well as health system leaders across the nation, to discuss what the hospital of the future could look like.

Podcast Tags: healthcare, health services, providers, hospitals

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• The digital hospital of the future
• In the Future, Patients Won’t Go to the Hospital—It Will Come to Them
• When the walls come tumbling down: the hospital of the future
• The future of hospitals: a consultancy viewpoint
• 5 Trends That Will Determine The Hospital From The Future

Panel – Ryan Hummel, Mindy McGrath, Jen Burke

Research & Production – Marc Young, Jen Burke

Recording & Editing – Mike Liberto, Rachel Skonecki

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Across the healthcare industry, organizations are beginning to think and operate differently to expand capabilities and adapt to a changing environment. Historically separate entities, such as health plans, providers, and technology companies, are coming together to collaborate on innovative solutions to a complex healthcare system. In this episode, Jen and Mindy are joined by Vynamic’s Provider Head of Sector, Ryan Hummel, and Health Plans Head of Sector, Saurabh Raman, to discuss how, and why, these health service organizations are re-imagining traditional sectors.

For more of Vynamic’s perspective on Convergence in Healthcare, check out:

• Breaking Boundaries: The Convergence Evolution
• The Convergence Conversation
• Health Plans: Big Bets for Convergence & Strategic Capital Diversification
• The Rise of Primary Care: Leading the Convergence Movement
• 2023 Healthcare Industry Trends

Podcast Tags: healthcare, health services, health plans, providers, convergence

Panel – Saurabh Raman, Mindy McGrath, Ryan Hummel, Jen Burke

Research & Production – Adrea Cope, Jen Burke

Recording & Editing – Mike Liberto, Rachel Skonecki

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On this week’s Trending News EU episode, Jack and Ollie discuss a few recent EU-based newsworthy items including the potential for robotics to transform surgical and patient care (0.35), exciting progress being made in Europe to advance decentralised clinical trials (7.26), and much needed hope for those suffering with postpartum depression following approval in the US of an innovative new medicine (15.48).

Podcast Tags: healthcare, healthcare news, robotics, AI, artificial intelligence, NHS, health equity, EU, clinical trials, neuroscience, depression, postpartum depression, major depressive disorder, biogen

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• Outdated legacy tech risks driving frustrated staff out of the NHS
• Millions of hours of doctors’ time lost each year to ‘inadequate’ IT systems
• St Bartholomew’s perform first robotic-assisted lung biopsy
• Is Outdated Technology Holding Back UK Surgeons?
• The robotics revolution has arrived, and it is changing how we do surgery
• €60 million committed to establish AI and robotics in healthcare
• Robotic surgery supporting faster recoveries and better outcomes
• Different, But Not Poles Apart: Running Decentralized Clinical Trials In EU & US
• Principles-Based vs Prescriptive: How US & EU Compare In Their Approach To Decentralized Trials
• How clinical trials benefit from decentralized solutions: A Nordic case study
• The trial of the future: using digital technologies to enable decentralized trials
• Decentralized trials getting some attention on the international regulatory front
• No place like home? Stepping up the decentralization of clinical trials
• A new pill in the U.S. offers hope to mothers with postpartum depression
• Postpartum psychosis: new mothers speak out over need for support
• Clinical Efficacy of a 2-Week Treatment Course of Zuranolone for the Treatment of Major Depressive Disorder and Postpartum Depression: Outcomes From the Clinical Development Program
• Impact of new pill to treat postpartum depression will depend on price
• Biogen, Sage's postpartum depression approval overshadowed by larger rejection

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Jack Young, Senior Director

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In this episode, Mindy, Ryan, and Jen discuss recent newsworthy items, including the latest in drug shortages across the US market, the damaging impact of cybersecurity and ransomware attacks on health systems and hospitals, and the FDA’s approval of Zurzuvae, a depression pill specific to treat severe depression after childbirth.

Podcast Tags: healthcare, healthcare news, life sciences, public health, drug shortages, cybersecurity, ransomware, FDA, women’s health, reproductive health, post-partum depression, mental health

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• Pfizer adds rocky mount meds emergency ordering list thwart hospital shortages
• Drugmakers are abandoning cheap generics and now US cancer patients can’t get meds
• South Dakota Drug Shortage Stockpile
• Hackers force hospital system to take its nation computer system offline
• Hospitals risk of data breach doubles just before, after a merger deal, research shows
• HHS release free online cybersecurity training, best practice reports for healthcare
• Hospitals top all industries when it comes to money lost in data breach
• FDA Approves First Pill for Postpartum Depression
• FDA Approves first postpartum depression pill in the US
• Biogen, Sage’s postpartum depression approval overshadowed by larger rejection
• More US counties have become maternity deserts since 2020

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Mindy McGrath, Healthcare Industry Advisor and Head of Public Health Sector

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Ryan Hummel, Executive and Head of Provider Sector

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Jen Burke, Director

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The impact of climate change on global health systems and health outcomes necessitates comprehensive action across healthcare decision making, policy formation, governance, structures, and systems. In this episode, Jen, Ryan, and Ollie are joined by Vynamic’s Rosanna Vellacott, to discuss how healthcare systems are grappling with the impacts of climate change and the multi-pronged approach required to address the accompanying public health crisis.

Podcast Tags: healthcare, climate change, public health, mental health, providers

Source Links:

·Five key links between climate change and health

·WHO issues urgent call for global climate action to create resilient and sustainable health systems

·Why climate resilience is key to building the health care organization of the future

·Valley fever, historically found only in the Southwest, is spreading. It can have devastating consequences.

·UW study strengthens evidence of link between air pollution and child brain development

·A Scoping Review of Interventions for the Treatment of Eco-Anxiety

·Yale Experts Explain Climate Anxiety

·Climate anxiety in children and young people and their beliefs about government responses to climate change: a global survey

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Rosanna Vellacott, Manager

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Oliver May, Senior Manager

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Ryan Hummel, Executive and Head of Provider Sector

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Jen Burke, Director

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The US primary care industry is in a period of rapid disruption, as dozens of new players raise capital like never before. While the operating methods of these new companies vary, the mission is the same – to utilize primary care to provide high quality, convenient care at a lower cost. In this episode, Jen, Mindy, and Ryan are joined by Vynamic’s Jed Barnes, to discuss what these changes mean for the future of primary care and healthcare industry at large. 

Podcast Tags: healthcare, primary care, providers, value based care, fee for service

For more information about Vynamic’s work in the Provider sector, please visit https://vynamic.com/sectors/providers/

Source Links:

·      Primary Care in High-Income Countries: How the United States Compares

·      5 Things to Know about Amazon’s Recent One Medical Acquisition

·      How Amazon built its healthcare strategy from Haven to One Medical

·      Amazon’s Foray into Primary Care Won’t Be Easy

·      CVS closes $10.6B acquisition of Oak Street Health to expand primary care footprint

·      JPM21: Oak Street Health, One Medical CEOs explain how healthcare models can actually scale

·      Convergence in Healthcare: Providers, Employers, and Health Plan

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Jed Barnes, Manager

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Mindy McGrath, Healthcare Industry Advisor and Head of Public Health Sector 

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Ryan Hummel, Executive and Head of Provider Sector 

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Jen Burke, Director 

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On this week’s Trending News EU episode, Jack and Ollie discuss a few recent EU-based newsworthy items including new therapies slowing Alzheimer’s progression (0:35), practical application of AI to reduce waiting times in NHS hospitals (8:34), and the impact of the recent European heatwave on healthcare systems (14:03).

Podcast Tags: healthcare, healthcare news, life sciences, AI, machine learning, artificial intelligence, NHS, health equity, EU, neuroscience, scientific research, innovation, alzheimers, dementia, climate change, heatwave

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· Alzheimer’s drug donanemab helps most when taken at earliest disease stage

· NHS ‘nowhere near ready’ to deliver new Alzheimer’s drug

· Drug donanemab seen as turning point in dementia fight

· Donanemab: NHS ‘not ready’ for Alzheimer’s wonder drugs as patients face postcode lottery for brain scans

· Life sciences competitiveness indicators 2023

· There's Finally a Fully Approved Alzheimer's Drug—But Getting It Won't Be Easy

· How AI is helping to shrink waiting times for NHS cancer patients

· AI cuts waiting times for cancer patients in NHS first

· Google and Microsoft Vie for Dominance in AI Healthcare

· Heatwaves, hospitals and health system resilience in England: a qualitative assessment of frontline perspectives from the hot summer of 2019

· Why do NHS hospitals struggle to handle heatwaves?

· The impact of the 2003 heat wave on mortality and hospital admissions in England

· Heat and health in the WHO European Region: updated evidence for effective prevention

· UK heatwave piles further pressure on stretched NHS services

· Heat, Heatwaves and Cardiorespiratory Hospital Admissions in Helsinki, Finland

· Italian hospitals report sharp rise in emergency cases as Rome hits 41.8C

· Parisians are most at risk of dying in European heatwaves

· Medicines manufacturing has the potential to drive UK growth over the next 10 years

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Jen Burke, Director

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Jack Young, Senior Director

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Oliver May, Senior Manager

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