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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.

Feb 11 2020

Iora Health, which builds primary care clinics for the Medicare population, has added $126 million in capital to support its modest mission of bringing "humanity to healthcare".  Gag me.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/iora-health-closes-126-million-series-f-funding-round-301001846.html
Feb 07 2020

AlayaCare, a supplier of software to manage home and community care, is acquiring the Procura division of Complia.  Procura offers enterprise software to long-term care facilities.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200103005017/en/AlayaCare-Announces-Strategic-Acquisition-Procura
Feb 07 2020

MTBC,  a vendor of revenue cycle management software, closed its acquisition of CareCloud, which offers practice management and EHR systems.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2020/01/08/1968039/0/en/MTBC-Announces-Acquisition-of-CareCloud-Closes-its-Largest-Transaction-to-Date.html
Feb 06 2020

Verana, which does patient data aggregation and analytics for life sciences firms and providers, has added $100 million in a new capital raise, and is acquiring PYA Analytics, which combines clinical data and images to improve health issue detection.

https://medcitynews.com/2020/02/alphabets-gv-leads-100m-investment-in-verana-health/
Feb 06 2020

Healthgrades, which helps patients find and schedule appointments with providers (hmmm, sounds a lot like that Kyruus company that just raised more money), scores highly by acquiring Evariant, which assists providers with patient engagement.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20200107005267/en/Healthgrades-Acquires-Evariant
Feb 06 2020

Kyruus, which offers provider search and scheduling software for health care systems, has secured $42 million in a new financing round.

https://www.kyruus.com/news/kyruus-raises-42-million-in-new-financing-after-delivering-another-year-of-record-growth
Feb 06 2020

Women's health company Advantia adds to its capital by raising $45 million more in funding.

https://technical.ly/dc/2020/01/08/advantia-health-45-million-investment-expansion/
Feb 05 2020

Alto Pharmacy, which delivers prescription drugs to patients in their homes or offices, has raised $250 million in new funding, which values the company "highly".  Hope it's a sound investment, the press release certainly sings their praises.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/30/alto-raises-250-million-from-softbank-vision-fund-2-others.html
Feb 05 2020

AMN Healthcare, which is primarily known as a staffing firm, is acquiring Stratus Video, which provides remote language translation services, for $475 million, a price that is up in the "Stratus"phere!

https://www.biospace.com/article/releases/amn-healthcare-to-acquire-stratus-video/
Feb 05 2020

Group purchasing organization Premier is acquiring two units of the Greater New York Hospital Association for about $290 million.  The units provide supply chain consulting and purchasing assistance for hospitals.

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/mergers-acquisitions/premier-acquire-gnyhas-gpo-and-finance-consultancy-subsidiaries
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