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Healthcare is getting optimized by AI. But optimized for whom? Ignition by RocketTools breaks down the systems, incentives, and technology reshaping how care gets approved, denied, and paid for — with data, not hype.
Dan McCoy, MD hosts Ignition by RocketTools, a business show with 24 episodes published.
In February 2024, hackers walked into the largest healthcare clearinghouse in America through a Citrix portal that didn't have multi-factor authentication. They used credentials stolen from a previous breach — someone, s
Twelve years ago, a Target statistician built a model that could predict pregnancy from 25 shopping items. The story usually gets told as a privacy parable. I'm telling it differently — as a preview of how healthcare AI
Y Combinator has a name for it: burn tokens, not headcount. A health insurance company called Decent runs with nine people total. Twofold does revenue cycle management with three. Deep Cura Health handles patient schedul
In March 2026, the Blue Cross Blue Shield Association published research blaming hospitals' AI billing tools for $2.3 billion in added healthcare costs. It was a grievance — not a strategy. And it stands in sharp contras
You've been told American healthcare is expensive because of greedy insurers, pharma profits, or the cost of innovation. That story is incomplete to the point of being misleading. The largest single driver of US healthca
There's a billionaire fight happening in an Oakland federal courtroom right now. The headlines are calling it Elon Musk versus Sam Altman—tech titans, AI drama, billions at stake. But here's what almost nobody is telling
A 6-month-old named KJ Muldoon just received the first personalized CRISPR gene therapy ever made — designed, manufactured, and administered for his exact mutation in six months. Nature named him to the Top 10 People Who
If you're a medical student picking a specialty in 2026, you're being asked to bet a decade and $300,000 in debt on a market nobody is teaching you to read. This episode is the framework I wish someone had given me — plu
Last week the Texas Medical Association joined a federal antitrust lawsuit against MultiPlan — recently rebranded as Claritev. The story being told is doctors versus insurers, an unlawful cartel, $19B in alleged underpay
49% of plan sponsors reported claims exceeding $1 million last year — double the rate from the year before. And stop-loss carriers are responding not by covering you better, but by finding creative ways to limit their ex
Andrej Karpathy just released AutoResearch — a 630-line Python tool that lets AI agents run hundreds of experiments overnight on a 35-cent GPU rental. In one test, 35 autonomous agents completed 333 experiments while eve
The AI labs are selling you $10,000 a month in computing power for $600. They're doing it at massive losses. And they have very specific reasons you should understand. In this episode, I break down the $670B subsidy era
Amazon launched an AI health agent inside the Amazon Shopping app — the same app where you order paper towels. It books appointments, manages prescriptions, explains lab results, and connects you to real doctors. Prime m
Anthropic just announced Claude Mythos Preview — an AI model so capable at finding software vulnerabilities that they won't release it publicly. Instead, they launched Project Glasswing with Apple, Google, Microsoft, and
Meta acquired Moltbook. OpenAI put ads in ChatGPT. Microsoft found 31 companies actively poisoning what AI assistants recommend. Everyone's calling it AI-native marketing — but what they're really describing is an influe
What's really happening with AI in healthcare? The common story is that health systems just need to find the right tool — the best ambient scribe, the smartest chatbot. But the reality is more complicated. In this episod
The telehealth boom was supposed to revolutionize healthcare forever—but what went wrong? In this episode, Dan McCoy unpacks the dramatic fall of industry giants like Teladoc and Amwell, revealing how their high-profile
Most employers think they're getting a deal on healthcare. They're not. The exposed rate data tells a different story — one where the same knee replacement costs wildly different amounts depending on which hospital and w
Mount Sinai just published the first independent safety evaluation of ChatGPT Health — and the findings should change how you think about AI in healthcare. Published in Nature Medicine, researchers ran 960 patient intera
Mark Cuban's Cost Plus Drug Company sells a cancer drug for $47 a month. That same drug often costs well over $2,000 at your pharmacy. Both include a 15% markup. The markup is the same — the price is dozens of times high
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