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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.

Oct 25 2019

Amazon adds to its health capabilities by purchasing Health Navigator, which offers online symptom checking and triage tools designed to help steer patients to appropriate treatment paths.

https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/23/amazon-acquires-digital-health-start-up-health-navigator.html
Oct 24 2019

Australia-based firm MedAdvisor, which provides an app to help patients manage the medications, raises $11.5 million in new financing, led by HMS Holdings.

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/medadvisor-raises-115m-hms-led-placement-investment
Oct 24 2019

Tempest storms Wall Street for a fresh $10 million in capital, supporting its alcohol abuse treatment services.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/tempest-secures-10-million-in-series-a-financing-to-make-recovery-from-alcohol-use-disorder-accessible-and-aspirational-300936157.html
Oct 24 2019

Avia flys off with $22 in new funding for its digital health insights business, and I have no idea what value they actually bring to their health system customers and investors but the press release is full of disruption, etc. etc.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20191023005232/en/AVIA-Raises-22-Million-New-Funding-Propel
Oct 22 2019

Octave Health strikes a positive note, collecting $11 million in new capital to support its behavioral health business which matches patients with in-person or telehealth care.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/10/behavioral-health-startup-octave-raises-11m-strikes-deal-with-california-insurer/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=78367427&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-813Kfh5NxmURFZ4hP4pjmsmBIzLuxfBoT6htG56kVYnVx2MlM7a3BU4IkNpgpxryAztPydq6m-jBp0_WwUwvuJQYnnvoPEipc7d6LzJUlu9t_oLTg&_hsmi=78367427&rf=1
Oct 21 2019

Connecture, an early vendor of private health insurance exchange services, has been acquired by N. Harris Computer Corp.

https://www.thinkadvisor.com/2019/10/17/canadian-company-acquires-connecture/?slreturn=20190919105931
Oct 18 2019

PBM Express Scripts, now a part of Cigna, buys 340B pharmacy service and software vendor Verity Solutions for an undisclosed price.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/10/express-scripts-acquires-verity-solutions/
Oct 17 2019

Vim shows some vigor, collecting $24 million in new funding for its software which supposedly matches patients with providers.

https://venturebeat.com/2019/09/09/vim-raises-24-million-to-match-patients-with-top-health-care-providers/
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