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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.

Apr 26 2018

$47 million in new financing flows to MobileMd System, a Chinese-based provider of clinical trial software.

https://www.crunchbase.com/funding_round/mobilemd-system-series-d--14682be6
Apr 26 2018

Somnoware, which offers respiratory therapy management software, gathers another $3.5 million in capital.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/04/prweb15409233.htm
Apr 26 2018

Doctors on Demand gets more capital, $74 million worth, for its business of, well, supplying doctors on demand for patients who want to use telemedicine.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/04/doctor-on-demand-telemedicine-funding/
Apr 24 2018

Today's dohhh moment is provided courtesy of research conducted by MD Anderson and published in JAMA Oncology.  The researchers found that patients that doctor who weren't using a computer during their interaction were more compassionate and had better communication skills.

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamaoncology/article-abstract/2678462?redirect=true
Apr 24 2018

Fresenius is selling its Sound Medical division, which provides emergency and critical care physician and other services, for $2.15 billion euros.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-fresenius-care-m-a/fresenius-medical-sells-u-s-sound-inpatient-for-2-15-billion-idUSKBN1HS0F3
Apr 23 2018

Kyruus has attracted $10 million in new financing to support its scheduling and appointment related software and app.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/04/kyruus-brings-in-10m/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=62280775&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_77Cf9C7A0EF5B_fMotU5iuU67CaD0I1wce1gAUtu4a2i__xPp9W3KNWP33i6nUHsadxwIXz2zU2-fgheNbwXzrXESXd5wpBNCH3MLWOvCo_UEfL4&_hsmi=62280775&rf=1
Apr 23 2018

Humana and two PE firms are buying Curo Health, which operates hospices, for about $1.4 billion.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/04/humana-tpg-welsh-carson-buy-curo-health-1-4-bln/
Apr 23 2018

Contessa, which offers care in patients home, including care for acute conditions typically treated in the hospital, has raised an undisclosed amount of additional capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/04/contessa-health-raises-funding/
Apr 19 2018

Two PE firms are doubling, no, wait, make that tripling, down by buying Triplefin, which provides patient support services for drug companies.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/04/water-street-jll-acquire-triplefin/