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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 30 2018

SWORD Health gets $4.6 million to fund its digital physiotherapist.

https://www.privateequitywire.co.uk/2018/04/16/263224/sword-health-secures-usd46-million-seed-funding
Apr 30 2018

Aetion has raised a new $36 million round to support its analytics business to help drug companies and purchasers engaged in value-based contracting.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/aetion-announces-36-million-in-series-b-funding-to-accelerate-its-platform-for-the-analysis-of-real-world-evidence-to-biopharma-companies-and-health-care-payers-300627263.html
Apr 30 2018

Sigh.  Sometimes I just don't know what to make of the world.  $40 million is raised by RealSelf, which calls itself the largest online aesthetics marketplace, where people can learn about cosmetic treatments and connect with providers.

https://pilotonline.com/business/consumer/article_fac65c61-8878-50c5-86c0-c7535b2ade84.html
Apr 27 2018

Hospital system ProMedica is buying HCR Manor Care, an operator of post-acute care facilities, for about $3.3 billion.

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/promedica-health-system-to-acquire-hcr-manorcare-redefining-care-for-seniors-300636947.html
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