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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.

Jan 23 2018

Patient satisfaction survey and analytics vendor Press Ganey is acquiring Bivarus, which a consumer feedback platform.

http://www.pressganey.com/about/news/press-ganey-expands-real-time-data-collection-capabilities-through-acquisition-of-bivarus
Jan 23 2018

Digital health coaching company Pack Health breaks from the pack, raising an undisclosed amount from an odd investor, Coverys, a medical malpractice insurer.

https://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/news/2018/01/17/pack-health-scores-investment-from-boston-company.html
Jan 23 2018

Employer health plan analytics firm Springbuk rakes in a few bucks, $20 million in a new round of funding.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/health-intelligence-company-springbuk-announces-20-million-series-b-round-300585960.html
Jan 23 2018

A PE firm has invested $30 million in Bio-Optronics, which offers clinical trial management, staff scheduling and patient safety software for providers.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2018/01/prweb15072103.htm
Jan 22 2018

Savii Care, which sells software for home health care management, smartly raises an undisclosed additional amount of funding.

http://www.finsmes.com/2018/01/savii-secures-additional-funding.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+finsmes%2FcNHu+%28FinSMEs%29
Jan 22 2018

Health care scheduling and staffing vendor NurseGrid has raised $5.7 million in new financing.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/nursegrid-raises-57-million-to-transform-healthcare-scheduling-and-staffing-tools-300584423.html
Jan 22 2018

Zipongo hurriedly raises a quick $18 million in new capital for its "digital" nutrition app that delivers personalized meal plans for patients with chronic illnesses.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/01/zipongo-raises-18m-bring-food-prescription-app-chronic-conditions-providers-health-plans/?rf=1
Jan 22 2018

Change Healthcare, which offers price transparency, payment and related services to payers and providers, is acquiring National Decision Support, which delivers relevant imaging guidelines at the point of care.

https://www.changehealthcare.com/press-room/press-releases/detail/2018/01/18/change-healthcare-acquires-national-decision-support-company
Jan 19 2018

CareDox garners an additional $16 million in funding to expand its focus from EHRs for schools to including care management capabilities.

https://medcitynews.com/2018/01/caredox-raises-16m-series-b-support-expansion-care-management/?utm_campaign=MCN%20Daily%20Top%20Stories&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=60090744&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8ETdptY76d6l5eoLmNb0VT2MD-YUlStxo9Z7MyNWZEFlgJJjTbJ-7UiAxzDp_e54azBLJ-MANnP3ycCCd69cazCyhNlCWkpR1-04iT66DrY7HFPi0&_hsmi=60090744
Jan 18 2018

A survey from the American Medical Group Association finds that profitability per physician declined for the average group practice in 2017, from an operating loss of about 10% of revenue in 2016 to around 17.5%.  Operating revenue per doctor increased somewhat.  Private practices had operating gains while health system owned practices had large losses, and smaller practices performed worse than did large ones.  If the survey results are accurate, this should add pressure to increase physician reimbursements by payers.

http://www.amga.org/wcm/AboutAMGA/News/2018/20180108.aspx
Jan 17 2018

Risk adjustment vendor Matrix Medical is acquiring HealthFair, which has a fleet of mobile health clinics that primarily do biometric screenings.

https://matrixmedicalnetwork.com/2018/01/16/matrix-acquisition-of-healthfair/