Ignition by RocketTools
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.
Ignition by RocketTools
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How One Reused Password Cost Change Healthcare $2.5 Billion (Healthcare Security, Part 1)
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, somewhere, had reused the...
The Target Story Isn't About Coupons. It's About Healthcare AI.
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 is going to work for the...
The 9-Person Insurance Company and the Real Line in AI-First Healthcare
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 scheduling, prior auth...
Are the Blues AI-Ready? Blue Cross vs. the Optum Platform Race
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 contrast to 1981, when the same...
The Hospital Cost Crisis: How Washington Banned Cheaper Care
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 healthcare spending isn't...