Hope, Power, and Healthcare
Hope, Power, and Healthcare
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Insights and news for healthcare's innovators. Hear from change makers in healthcare & health technology about, and maybe even join us for a show!
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The show focuses on contemporary healthcare innovation, including discussions on employee wellbeing's ROI, agentic AI in healthcare, and challenges faced by healthcare entrepreneurs with episodes such as in-depth analyses of new studies and interviews with industry leaders like Dr. Eric Topol and Crystal Brown, emphasizing the intersection of science and business strategy.
Insights and news for healthcare’s innovators. Hear from change makers in healthcare & health technology about, and maybe even join us for a show!
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In our Halloween episode, our hosts, Chris Hemphill (Johann Sebastian Bach) and Melissa Reilly (ChatGPT 5.0), are back to tackle collapsing systems, sky-high medical costs, and the wild world of AI-assisted software development.
Chris and Melissa dive into the tough conversations affecting everyone, particularly the unsustainable nature of healthcare costs – with the average medical bill per family now reaching $27,000.
The two also ponder the question, “are LLMs the future of programming?”. Chris breaks down the concepts of vibe coding and trash coding, which involve letting an LLM develop code for an entire system.
Melissa and Chris both share highlights from their recent events, and what they’re excited for in the upcoming weeks.
As always, thank you for tuning in, fam!
Links from today’s episode:AI used in billing battle with health system, reducing bill from almost $200k to $33k – http://threads.com/@nthmonkey/post/DQVdAD1gHhw
AI Billing Arms race covered by STAT: https://www.statnews.com/2025/10/31/health-insurer-ai-fights-hospital-ai-coding-billing/
Bach Remix from beginning of episodehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i3c1zmuK_cA
Extreme Makeover Home Edition, The Gaudet Family, S1E21:https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1073411/
Hosts:Chris Hemphill – Chris’s 17 years in healthcare technology have spanned sales, operations, data science IC, and AI leadership. Chris couples this with a focus on health equity and serves as the NYU McSilver Institute for Poverty Policy Research Fellow for Healthcare AI. Chris’s currently leads Modular Feedback, which focuses on helping healthcare innovators find and build thoughtful AI use cases: https://modularfeedback.com
Melissa Reilly – Melissa spent the last 20 years leading innovations at major payers: UnitedHealth Group(Optum Ventures), Aetna, and Evernorth/Cigna. She’s helped drive and commercialize multiple startups in AI & consumer testing, and she is now driving product and commercialization for healthcare innovators full-time. She brings industry expertise as well as a background in law, negotiation, & real estate. Her company’s name is STLTH.
Production:Edited by Alyssa SchrollMusic by Chris Hemphill
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