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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.

Dec 12 2017

International health care firm Phillips is acquiring Forcare, which sells data interoperability software for health care organizations.

https://www.philips.com/a-w/about/news/archive/standard/news/press/2017/20171205-philips-enhances-its-clinical-informatics-portfolio-with-the-acquisition-of-interoperability-provider-forcare.html
Dec 12 2017

Mytonomy appears to get less autonomy, as the vendor of patient engagment services (now where I have heard that phrase before) raises a $7 million capital round that includes Phillips.

http://www.weny.com/story/36955489/mytonomy-announces-series-a-financing-headlined-by-an-investment-from-philips
Dec 11 2017

Population health and patient engagement firm SymphonyCare makes sweet music as it is swayed to buy  Influence Health's Empower patient portal.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/12/symphonycare-buys-influence-healths-empower-patient-portal-unit/
Dec 11 2017

Trinisys, a vendor of health data migration and archiving services, has acquired MICA health, which is in the same business.

https://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/trinisys-acquires-mica-health
Dec 11 2017

FDA Draft Guidance on Clinical Decision Support Systems

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/UCM587819.pdf
Dec 11 2017

FDA Final Guidance on When Software May Be Considered to Be a Medical Device

https://www.fda.gov/downloads/MedicalDevices/DeviceRegulationandGuidance/GuidanceDocuments/UCM524904.pdf
Dec 11 2017

A PE firm has recapitalized and will combine two risk assessment companies, Advance Health and Censeo.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/12/new-mountain-backs-censeo-and-advance-health/
Dec 11 2017

Woodn't you know it, Cedar garners $13 million in new funding for its payment system to help providers collect from patients.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20171206005064/en/Cedar-Launches-Smarter-Payment-Solution-Providers-Patients
Dec 08 2017

Hospital chains Dignity Health and Catholic Health have agreed to merge, yet another deal that should be stopped.

https://www.beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-transactions-and-valuation/chi-dignity-health-to-merge-into-28-4b-nonprofit-system-7-takeaways.html
Dec 07 2017

Virtual Health gets $7 million in real money to support its care management platform aimed at health plans and risk-bearing entities.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/12/prweb14978994.htm
Dec 07 2017

HealthiPass didn't get a pass from investors, garnering $7.2 million for yet another business that helps providers collect from patients at the point-of-service or thereafter.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/12/healthipass-gathers-7-2-mln-series-a/
Dec 07 2017

A study in the journal Health Services Research finds that drug-eluting stents were taken up by cardiologists faster in markets in which there was greater competition among cardiologists, but hospital market structure appeared to have little impact on diffusion rates.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27196678