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22 Agents in 12 Months | Solution Showcase with UTMB

The 229 Podcast · 24 min

Episode Description

September 16, 2026: Nish Khandwala, Co-Founder and CEO of Bunkerhill Health, and Dr. Peter McCaffrey, Chief Digital and AI Officer at UTMB Health, join Bill Russell. UTMB started with an FDA-cleared incidental coronary artery calcium algorithm. The next question was the workflow: who sees the flag, who acts, do you hire a navigator. Agents now pull the image, the chart context, and the downstream tasks. In 12 months UTMB went from one live agent to 22 on a single instance: missed patients, prior auth, care pathways, referral access.

Key Points:

  • 0:00 Open

  • 0:06 Solution Showcase

  • 0:39 What Bunkerhill is

  • 3:10 Incidental calcium, then what

  • 5:56 Open systems vs Epic

  • 9:10 What's this going to cost

  • 11:25 22 agents in 12 months

  • 13:29 You can also build expensive RPA

  • 16:55 If the agent is a toy

  • 20:05 Forward-deployed engineers

  • 23:17 Close


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