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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.

May 07 2019

Roundtrip takes investors for a ride, raising $5.1 million in financing for its app that helps patients get to providers.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/05/roundtrip-non-emergency-medical-transportation/
May 07 2019

Behavioral telehealth company Forefront Telecare comes to the top of investors' minds, picking up $15 million in new capital.

http://forefronttelecare.com/blog/2017/2019/04/23/forefront-telecare-behavioral-health-solution-for-rural-americans-completes-15-million-growth-equity-funding-round/
May 06 2019

Health coaching app vendor Noom raises $58 million in new capital, that's right, not $5.8 million or $.58 million, which might have made more sense, but $58 million.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/05/06/heath-coaching-app-noom-will-expand-its-product-team-after-raising-58m-led-by-sequoia/
May 06 2019

Health care staffing firm AMN Healthcare is acquiring Advanced Medical Personnel, which specializes in placing nurses, for around $200 million.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/05/amn-healthcare-to-acquire-advanced-medical-personnel-services-for-200-mln/
May 05 2019

Tellus tells investors to give them another $9 million in capital for its business of doing electronic visit verification.

https://4tellus.com/tellus-closes-series-b-growth-capital-funding-for-more-than-9-million/
May 03 2019

Troy Medicare gathers in $5 million for its attempt to start a new Medicare Advantage that will focus on pharmacists as providers.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190501005169/en/
May 03 2019

CirrusMD's future gets less cloudy, as it gets a lofty $15 million in additional capital to support its pie-in-the-sky digital health "chat-first" business for veterans.  Less talk, more results.

https://www.cirrusmd.com/newsroom/series-b-funding
May 03 2019

3M is taking a somewhat surprising and very large dip into the medical device business, buying wound care company Acelity for $6.7 billion.

https://pitchbook.com/news/articles/3m-inks-its-largest-purchase-to-date-with-67b-deal-for-ipo-bound-acelity
May 01 2019

CPSI, which provides EHR and revenue management systems for smaller hospitals, is acquiring Get Real Health, which offers care management and patient engagement solutions, for $11 million.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190424005300/en/CPSI-Acquire-Real-Health-Expand-Patient-Engagement
May 01 2019

Low-income Americans tend to have a syndrome of bad health behaviors, including poor nutrition.  A study using fruit and vegetable only vouchers did not improve use of those supposedly healthy foods, proving once again what should be obvious, to change behavior you probably have to use sticks as well as carrots.

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/abs/10.1377/hlthaff.2018.05405
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