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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.

Jun 22 2017

CirrusMd has its head in the clouds after closing on $7 million in new capital for its text-based telemedicine service.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170620005678/en/CirrusMD-Closes-7-Million-Series-Funding
Jun 20 2017

Struggling telemedicine firm Teladoc is spending $440 million to acquire BestDoctors, which rates and connects patients to physician resources.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/brucejapsen/2017/06/19/teladoc-to-spend-440m-on-telehealth-consultation-firm-best-doctors/#1fb9a5687b7d
Jun 19 2017

If you are a startup and you want to succeed, pick a market niche that no one else is in, say a wearable device that provides health information monitoring.  No one else is doing that, are they??  Spry Health lands a healthy $5.5 million for its version of such a wearable.

http://hitconsultant.net/2017/06/15/spry-health-series-a-round/
Jun 15 2017

Please, make it stop.  Xealht raises $8.5 million in funding to help doctors send electronic copies of health education material to patients and track their use of the materials.

http://www.seattletimes.com/business/technology/seattle-health-care-tech-startup-xealth-raises-85-million/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20Daily%20Health%20Policy%20Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=53112009&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--xb0bQm1KAIEhekJ94Uba10Sb22eKDsRpgwypul1X_3DlXeDDX66GY1y-LhOIJUoeobEfBuikXRkU0ccjilAXTXWv6lV80g7qQyg9filup0607sPI&_hsmi=53112009
Jun 15 2017

You haven't fingered the pulse of the market if you aren't calling yourself a digital health company, like Peerfit, which raised $2.3 million to help arrange "boutique" fitness classes for health plan members and others.  Someone will pay for this?

https://pulse.peerfit.com/digital-health-startup-peerfit-closes-2-3m-investment-round/
Jun 15 2017

Ever wonder how many new-fangled pharmacies we need?  We are going to find out.  Yet another one gets some financing, as NowRx attracts $2 million to deliver drugs to consumers.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/06/on-demand-pharmacy-nowrx-fetches-2-mln-seed/
Jun 14 2017

From the health plans have too much capital looking for a home department, Omada Health, which claims to offer services that keep pre-diabetics from getting the disease, garners another $50 million in capital in a round led by Cigna.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/06/cigna-leads-omada-healths-latest-50m-investment-round/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8r7q1QFv8EfRsXkkalv3UKFYWfLT2ESRIQ-7FJENA1yOOK3lruIL7fTAPkbzCaF3YSsv6iJupBkjNVr2wCGiiyfZBsJ65-UzeDFZiBxBI5X3Bixy8&_hsmi=53105520&rf=1
Jun 14 2017

The digital pharmacy company formerly known as ScriptDash has raised $23 million in new capital and changed its name to Alto.  Because it has a higher level of capital?  Because it is singing a new tune?  Because even with all this new capital, it can't afford an office in Palo Alto, just in Alto?  I don't know.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/06/digital-pharmacy-startup-alto-bags-23-mln-techcrunch/
Jun 14 2017

From the too much capital looking for a home department, Doctible has received $2.2 million investment for its software platform to streamline doctor/patient interactions.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2017/06/prweb14415745.htm