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2023 Most Disruptive MBA Startups: Flagler Health, Wharton School

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by Jeff Schmitt, Poets&Quants

Flagler Health creates artificial intelligence-based software tools that help musculoskeletal (Ortho, Interventional Pain, Physical Therapy) physicians improve their suite of clinical offerings to patients.

Prior to Flagler Health, Albert Katz, WG'23, was the Chief Financial Officer at Spine and Wellness Centers of America, a multidisciplinary musculoskeletal clinic based in Florida. At Spine and Wellness Centers of America, I advocated for the implementation of a Value-Based Care Model that would improve patient outcomes by making sure patients saw the right physician at the right time. This required a joint venture with an orthopedic and physical therapy group and the acquisition of a rheumatology practice, which was expensive and difficult to operate. The technological uplift to implement and prove the cost-savings of a Value-Based Care Model in musculoskeletal clinics didn’t exist, so Flagler was born.

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