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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.

Aug 23 2019

MDClone copies a well-used route to success, raising $26 million in capital, by claiming to create the "first of its kind platform which democratizes data to the entire healthcare ecosystem".  Uhh, wow, I think I should be impressed, at least by the level of hype.  Oh wait, it uses "synthetic data".  Hmmm, doesn't that mean artificial?  So you are democratizing fake data?  Oh gosh, now I am just confused, but then I am obviously not as smart as the investors who fall for this stuff.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/mdclone-developer-of-first-healthcare-synthetic-data-engine-raises-26-million-300906058.html
Aug 20 2019

Telus Health, a subsidiary of the large Canadian telecommunications company, tells us that it is buying the combined Akira/Right Health firm, a vendor of virtual care software.

https://www.pehub.com/canada/2019/08/telus-health-buys-igan-partners-backed-akira-and-right-health/
Aug 20 2019

Hold on to your hats, the world of health care is being transformed, by the transformative merger of iGambit and Clinigence, or at least that is what the press release says.  The former is a health risk assessment platform and the later does population health analytics.

https://www.igambit.com/blog
Aug 19 2019

Nomad Health, which offers temporary staffing services for health systems, wanders into a fresh $34 million of capital.

https://www.modernhealthcare.com/finance/new-york-startup-raises-34-million-staffing-platform?utm_source=modern-healthcare-daily-finance-friday&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20190816&utm_content=article3-headline
Aug 16 2019

Nurx, which offers an online birth control product platform, has raised $52 million in new funding.

https://www.mobihealthnews.com/news/north-america/nurx-gets-another-52-million-deliver-mail-order-birth-control-prep-sti-test-kits
Aug 15 2019

Aspirion, which aspires to get larger, is buying Specialized Healthcare Partners, which helps providers collect on complex claims.  Aspirion provides other revenue cycle management services to providers.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/08/pe-backed-aspirion-merges-with-specialized-healthcare-partners/
Aug 15 2019

Buoy Health floats a fresh $15 million in financing for its website that uses, guess what, AI, to help consumers find health information, because there just aren't enough websites like that already.

https://www.pehub.com/2019/08/buoy-health-raises-15-mln/