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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.

Mar 20 2018

HelloMD, which connects patients with doctors for "medical" cannabis consultations, has raised a stoned-cold $8.5 million to jointly throw in its pot of funding from dopey investors.   Lets be blunt, the grass isn't always greener on the other side of the street, it might be weed, and I hope this isn't a chronic problem for shareholders.

https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hellomd
Mar 20 2018

Sleep tracking software firm Eight (don't ask me, but the name was Luna, apparently for mooning shareholders) lulls investors into giving it $14 million more in capital, which it will promptly digest and be back for more.

http://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/sleep-company-eights-latest-funding-round-brings-14m
Mar 19 2018

Medinas Health, which helps health care organizations sell surplus equipment, garners $1 million in fresh financing.

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2018/03/15/1438144/0/en/Medinas-Health-Closes-1-Million-Seed-Round-Co-led-by-Ashton-Kutcher-Guy-Oseary-s-Sound-Ventures-and-General-Catalyst-s-Rough-Draft-Ventures.html
Mar 19 2018

Parachute Health is developing software and processes to facilitate the ordering of durable medical equipment for patients and has raised $5.5 million in new capital to support that business.

https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20180316005132/en/Parachute-Health-Raises-5.5-Million-Seed-Transform
Mar 19 2018

Continuing a whirlwind of recent deals, probably meant to mask serious issues, Centene has made a significant investment in RxAdvance, a supposedly futuristic PBM, with the right to increase its stake in the future.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/centene-and-rxadvance-establish-transformative-partnership-to-create-next-generation-pharmacy-management-solution-300612797.html
Mar 19 2018

Siemens Healthineers unit has completed an IPO valuing it at $5 billion.

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-15/siemens-raises-5-2-billion-in-german-ipo-of-health-care-unit
Mar 19 2018

Large health care IT vendor Cognizant is buying Bolder Healthcare Solutions, which offers revenue cycle management software and services for about $108 million.

https://www.pehub.com/2018/03/jz-capital-sell-bolder-healthcare/