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.
Episodes
13 episodes
Amazon Just Put a Doctor in Your Shopping Cart
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 members get five free vir...
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Episode 12
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5:37
Hacking DNA: What Anthropic's Mythos Model Means for Medicine
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 others, com...
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Episode 13
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2:37
The Injection Economy: When AI Whispers in Your Ear
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 influence mechanism with no...
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Episode 11
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11:18
Why Healthcare AI Keeps Failing — It's Not the AI, It's the Integration
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 episode, I break down wh...
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Episode 10
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6:56
Tele-Doom: Why AI Is Rewriting the Future of Telehealth
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 bets on nationwide distr...
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Episode 9
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11:14
The Network Arbitrage Game: How Employers Are Overpaying for Healthcare
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 which network you're in, ...
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Episode 8
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10:52
When AI Knows the Diagnosis But Misses the Action
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 interactions across 21 m...
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Episode 7
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3:23
The 15% Trap: How a Single Number Broke Healthcare Pricing
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 higher, and nobody's asking ...
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Episode 6
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20:37
What AI Prior Authorization Actually Looks Like — And Why It Will Demand More From Providers, Not Less
Everyone's pitching AI as the solution to prior authorization. And they're right — the technology is about to solve it. Ambient scribes capturing every detail. Clinical decision support guiding every order. Automated systems submitting p...
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Episode 5
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20:58
Are Tokens the New RVU? Why Healthcare's Measurement System Is About to Break
What if the way we measure a doctor's productivity is completely wrong?Software companies have already abandoned "lines of code" as a productivity metric — they now budget in tokens, the fundamental unit of AI work. Some developers spend...
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Episode 3
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11:46
AI, Healthcare Privacy, and the Pentagon: Why HIPAA Can't Protect You Anymore
The Pentagon just labeled Anthropic — the company behind Claude AI — a national security supply chain risk. Not because they're a foreign adversary. Because they refused to remove two guardrails: no mass surveillance of Americans and no autonom...
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Episode 3
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8:07
Your Rural Clinic Is a Hacker's Easiest Target
The common story about healthcare cybersecurity is that big hospital systems are the targets. The reality is more complicated. Rural America is ground zero — and the math is brutal.The Change Healthcare attack knocked out 50% of all U.S....
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Episode 2
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7:10
$60M to Replace Benefits Brokers. The Disruption Is Here.
Gyde just raised $60 million to build the first AI-native insurance brokerage. Not a tool for brokers — a replacement for the brokerage model itself. Led by Lightspeed, backed by Optum Ventures, founded by a 10-year Oscar Health veteran....
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Season 1
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Episode 1
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9:55