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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 22 2018

InquisitiHealth has asked for and received about $4 million in funding to create peer mentors to help people manage their health and wellness.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/08/inquisithealth-funding-population-health/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=65369320&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_ajETvdFk0mLm984JySRT1SyyuoHMbvis0BHzG84n4ooT4iKPcR_n31Anj02hSPljhDUzzGlgs3A37M6Zw1LF7rWotMnW2AbQJmSjjqNvaGSVaxv4&_hsmi=65369320&rf=1
Aug 21 2018

WellBrain is acquiring Mevoked, and investors will hopefully combine the names and get "Woked".  WellBrain has apps to help with chronic pain management and Mevoked has apps to help women with pregnancy, a natural fit since the product of pregnancy often creates pain for the parents.  Well, Brainy investors, Me has joked enough.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/wellbrain-founded-by-3-harvard-stanford-and-mayo-clinic-trained-physicians-expands-its-reach-as-one-of-the-largest-clinically-validated-digital-chronic-pain-management-and-addiction-prevention-tools-with-recent-mevoked-acquis-300697724.html
Aug 21 2018

Olive (formerly known as CrossChx) gets out of the pits, oiling its way to $32.8 million in fresh funding for its artificial intelligence solution to automate certain health care provider tasks.

https://venturebeat.com/2018/07/30/olive-f-k-a-crosschx-closes-32-8-million-series-d-financing/
Aug 20 2018

HealthMyne has secured $15 million in new capital for its clinical decision support system for radiology and oncology.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180801005016/en/HealthMyne-Raises-15-Million-Series-Expand-Commercialization?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTkRNeU5EazJNbVF5T0RZMiIsInQiOiJQNEk2ZmFsRGlWOFhJdDlBOXRHUUFDN0xnUlJwTThhMHFNUXN3NlM3MFVsRTBHUkVTcWhlZXU1MjVMU2FhUWZuYlptbEtyRFwvNkdnS1FESmVWYWdSMEc1VUpha1Y2aFhwWFRhbldMQlNJQXFNaFRcL0pIaFwvZkdyMU0zb1orZ0I2ZSJ9
Aug 20 2018

AxiaMed, which offers point-of-care patient payment software, finds $12.4 million in new funding.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180814005734/en/AxiaMed-Announces-12.4-Million-Capital-Investment-Led
Aug 20 2018

Medisys, a Canadian provider of health and wellness services through employers, has been sold to the Telus Corporation, a large Canadian telecommunications company.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/08/pcp-sells-medisys-to-telus/
Aug 17 2018

Sansoro Health, which helps companies with software for data integration, has raised $8 million in new funding.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/sansoro-health-raises-8m-to-accelerate-electronic-health-record-interoperability-300696267.html
Aug 15 2018

Apparently Alphabet, also known as Google, is putting $375 million into Oscar Health, the supposedly revolutionary health plan that is best at sucking up investors money.  Google will be searching for returns there for a long time.

https://www.cnbc.com/2018/08/14/alphabet-invests-375-million-in-josh-kushner-founded-oscar-health.html
Aug 15 2018

Okay, this is a hilarious story about how health care needs more "disruptive" CEOs.  How about just get some competent ones, especially on the provider side.  I thought disruptive wasn't good, at least for kids in the class room.  Just more nonsense reflecting both the "cult of the CEO" and the supposed value of disruption.  Most businesses that try to do things in a radically different way disrupt things all right, just with bad results.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20180811/NEWS/180809909?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20180811-NEWS-180809909&utm_campaign=financedaily