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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.

Sep 26 2019

Three Oaks Hospice has treed investors and raked in $21 million in capital for its hospice network in Texas.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/09/three-oaks-hospice-racks-up-more-than-21-mln/
Sep 26 2019

NView Health sees its way to a fresh $4.65 million in funding for its form interview to determine if a patient has one of 20 behavioral health problems.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nview-health-raises-4-65-million-in-seed-funding-from-bip-capital-300923724.html
Sep 25 2019

On demand house call provider Heal makes it better by acquiring Doctors on Demand, a similar company based in New York, for $15 million.

https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/house-call-app-heal-acquires-doctors-call-expands-to-nyc-market?mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiT0RCalpHUm1ZV0U0TnpNeiIsInQiOiJsUHpYOFpKUmNyeXRFRUw5bDFYNlZXN0ViNlwvNkVUb1ExUXpwc2lXN1wvMDdLVUZ6M2hRRmtYOUtIaERoMnJqMWJOQnkyVTJjVG95RlNJQWg0OTVBZGd4dnFDcm5TVG1IVGVaVDBxU2FZMjhTUG1aVklJTlF4VVQrMXVjOEhZV2ZUIn0%3D&mrkid=635530
Sep 24 2019

Vero socializes a fresh $2.5 million in capital to build what it calls the first social media network for health care and I am pretty sure isn't.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/voro-raises-2-5-million-to-build-the-first-healthcare-social-network-300921628.html
Sep 23 2019

InsightRx drugs investors into providing a new $10 million financing round for its software that helps prescribers optimize dosing in hospital settings.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/healthcare-technology-startup-insightrx-raises-10-million-to-enable-precision-dosing-at-point-of-care-300922236.html
Sep 23 2019

Incredible Health (let me point out that that word literally means not believable) secures a fresh $15 million in financing for its nurse staffing platform.

https://techcrunch.com/2019/09/12/incredible-healths-hiring-platform-for-nurses-gets-15m-led-by-andreessen-horowitz/
Sep 23 2019

NexHealth garners $4 million in new capital for its software to help doctors improve the patient experience of care.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nexhealth-raises-4m-in-funding-to-modernize-the-patient-experience-300921359.html
Sep 23 2019

TPA Stream, a vendor of health benefits administration software, gathers $1.4 million in initial funding.

https://www.jumpstartinc.org/press/tpa-stream-raises-1-4m-seed-round-to-improve-healthcare-benefits-automation/
Sep 20 2019

I think Cogito thoughtfully garners a fresh $20 million in capital for its creepy software that analyzes conversations to determine emotional content.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190905005209/en/Cogito-Receives-20-Million-Funding-Extend-Market
Sep 20 2019

Robin Healthcare sticks up investors for a fresh $15 million in funding to build a digital assistant for doctors.
Sep 20 2019

OptimizeRx, which has a software platform that connects pharmaceutical companies to prescribers, is acquiring RMDY Health for $16 million, adding its digital health management capabilities.

https://www.globenewswire.com/news-release/2019/09/05/1911677/0/en/OptimizeRx-to-Acquire-Digital-Therapeutics-SaaS-Platform-Provider-RMDY-Health.html