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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.
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Signup to Generate a PitchHealthcare 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.
Ignition by RocketTools is hosted by Dan McCoy, MD. The show has published 29 episodes to date.
Recent episodes include "Why the Hospital Is Never "At Capacity"" (20 August 2026, 9 minutes), "Fire the Tool You Rent: How We Replaced Vimeo in 4 Days" (11 August 2026, 11 minutes), and "You Didn't Lose Your Job. You Got a Funded Sabbatical." (31 July 2026, 13 minutes).
Ignition by RocketTools publishes roughly weekly, with episodes averaging 11 minutes across 29 episodes.
Booking probability for Ignition by RocketTools is 22%, and the host is rated Selective on guests. Ignition by RocketTools requires a Pod Score of 80 or higher. Ignition by RocketTools's contact route on record: public web form.
The strongest fits for Ignition by RocketTools are Health & Wellness Services and IT Services & Software Development. Ignition by RocketTools has a business audience and around 360 subscribers on YouTube.
Dan McCoy, MD hosts Ignition by RocketTools, a business podcast with 29 episodes published.
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Episode #29
Over the past year, roughly once a month, someone in Texas called me in the middle of a medical crisis. A parent in the emergency room. A spouse who needed to be admitted. In every single one of those cases — 100% of...
Episode #28
There's a question every business owner is going to have to answer over the next couple of years: which of the tools you pay for every month could you just own? In this episode, Dan McCoy walks through a real example...
Episode #26
What to actually do with the severance, the time, and the expertise that just walked out the door with you. I'm going to make an argument that sounds insane for about ninety seconds, and then I hope stays with you for...
Episode #25
<p>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 —...
Episode #24
<p>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...
Episode #23
<p>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...
Episode #22
<p>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...
Episode #21
<p>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.<br/><br/>The largest single driver...
Episode #20
<p>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...
Episode #19
<p>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...
Episode #18
<p>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.<br/><br/>This episode is the framework I wish someone had...
Episode #17
<p>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...
Episode #16
<p>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...
Episode #15
<p>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...
Episode #14
<p>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.</p><p>In this episode, I break down the $670B...
Episode #12
<p>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...
Episode #13
<p>Anthropic just announced Claude Mythos Preview — an AI model so capable at finding software vulnerabilities that they won't release it publicly. </p><p>Instead, they launched Project Glasswing with Apple, Google...
Episode #11
<p>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...
Episode #10
<p>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.</p><p>In...
Episode #9
<p>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...
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