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Kevin Roche

The Healthy Skeptic is a website about the health care system, and is written by Kevin Roche, who has many years of experience working in the health industry through Roche Consulting, LLC. Mr. Roche is available to assist health care companies through consulting arrangements and may be reached at khroche@healthy-skeptic.com.

Mar 09 2020

Fruit Health becomes the apple of investors' eyes, as they go bananas over the virtual diabetes prevention program vendor, putting $17 million into the company.  Orange you glad I told you this.

https://medcitynews.com/2020/03/funded-by-physicians-fruit-street-health-raises-17m/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=84447631&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-81bC4XdDvu-h7FPHL6NLuyTsFFapT_p3ikfjOpdVb46V35JJPA12tFex1Vos1-xjljlm5snTPkobJ1minvc3SaoqJ-FMLXYL69giuT1EpFi4O9uJg&_hsmi=84447631
Mar 05 2020

Alignment Healthcare, a vendor of Medicare Advantage plans, raises an additional $135 million in funding.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2020/03/04/alignment-healthcare-lands-135m-investment-to-grow-medicare-advantage/#7e7a8a221407
Mar 03 2020

K Health, which is aiming to use artificial intelligence to improve telehealth, letters in fundraising, with another $48 million capital raise.

https://venturebeat.com/2020/02/27/k-health-raises-45-million-to-apply-ai-to-telemedicine/
Mar 02 2020

axialHealthcare has raised $16.5 million in new funding.  The company offers pain management solutions for members of health plans and others.

https://www.axialhealthcare.com/oak/
Mar 02 2020

Caravan Health, which helps ACOs with implementation services, has acquired Wellpepper, which offers patient engagement services.

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/aco-implementation-program-caravan-health-looks-digital-acquisition-wellpepper
Feb 27 2020

Ribbon Health puts a bow on some additional financing, securing a fresh $10 million for its service of helping patients identify and select patients, as best I can tell.

https://techcrunch.com/2020/02/26/andreessen-makes-ribbon-health-the-first-investment-from-its-750-million-new-healthcare-fund/
Feb 25 2020

Sharecare has a vision, or is it a hallucination, and acquired Visualize Health.  The former is the ubiquitous digital health engagement platform and the latter helps providers catch gaps in care that are called for by quality measures.

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/sharecare-acquires-visualize-health
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