Melissa reflects on her time leading innovations at UHG and what their changes mean for healthcare and health innovation.
Chris discusses what we can learn from OpenAI's new "Health Bench" LLM benchmark for healthcare Q&A.
Back as UnitedHealth Group CEO, Hemsley Says Issues Can Be Resolved - https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2025/05/13/back-as-unitedhealth-ceo-hemsley-says-issues-within-capacity-to-resolve/
UNH's Disastrous Q1 - https://hospitalogy.com/articles/2025-04-23/unhs-disastrous-q1/
OpenAI's Health AI Benchmark:
STAT News's Review - https://www.statnews.com/2025/05/12/openai-leaps-into-health-care-with-ai-benchmark-to-evaluate-models/
OpenAI's unveiling - https://openai.com/index/healthbench/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.comMelissa 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.
