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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 10 2019

Dispatch Health homes in on $33 million in investor money, getting a new capital round.  The company has an app which allows patients to summon a provider to their home to deliver care.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/05/denver-startup-dispatchhealth/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=72512730&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--RIAl5lfnblKtswsbVIYkgQUcZ46Z6L7Vic6eaNfYBqU-5eeRFrZBbIKA5_8g3m3ErCJWNZgi0sLqXWiTL9qmwfA6U0ccgLUnhm71NqWyqcVDGlRo&_hsmi=72512730&rf=1
May 10 2019

HealthIQ smartly raises $55 million to grow its life insurance business that offers lower rates to policyholders who engage in healthy behaviors.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/05/insuretech-company-health-iq-raises-55-million-series-d-for-healthy-living-insurance-policies/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=72512730&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--RIAl5lfnblKtswsbVIYkgQUcZ46Z6L7Vic6eaNfYBqU-5eeRFrZBbIKA5_8g3m3ErCJWNZgi0sLqXWiTL9qmwfA6U0ccgLUnhm71NqWyqcVDGlRo&_hsmi=72512730&rf=1
May 10 2019

Large health IT company Harris Healthcare is buying Uniphy Health, which ophphers apps to help providers with communication of health inphormation.

https://medcitynews.com/2019/05/harris-healthcare-acquires-clinical-communications-company-uniphy-health/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=72512730&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--RIAl5lfnblKtswsbVIYkgQUcZ46Z6L7Vic6eaNfYBqU-5eeRFrZBbIKA5_8g3m3ErCJWNZgi0sLqXWiTL9qmwfA6U0ccgLUnhm71NqWyqcVDGlRo&_hsmi=72512730&rf=1
May 08 2019

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Astarte Medical Bgins to gather funding, getting $5 million in initial capital to support its use of precision medicine to improve premature infant outcomes.

May 08 2019

Elligo captures $20 million in new capital to support its clinical research business aiming at bringing more physicians and patients into the process.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20190507005194/en/Elligo-Health-Research-Raises-20M-Connect-Physicians/?feedref=JjAwJuNHiystnCoBq_hl-R2sso4tCp8l0Yad2mB4_VJcgiwDl5F89IquLVWUqfRVgLxDkSKfgoruKb9yWl5as-PbWreMWuYBefATrZ0EPTVwBy5zzcjujtbJhwuWD3GRBSvR87oUDgbHejiywQBpbg==
May 07 2019

BetterPT has an app to help patients make physical therapy appointments and do followup and since its an app, for God's sake, lets pour $5 million in new funding into the company.

https://www.crainsnewyork.com/health-care/betterpt-raises-5m-physical-therapy-booking-app
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/