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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.

May 25 2017

Vericred gets $5.5 million in new capital to expand its centralized health insurance data platform.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/vericred-closes-55-million-series-a-round-led-by-fca-venture-partners-300461105.html
May 25 2017

Specialist physician EHR vendor Modernizing Medicine gets an up-to-date financing round of $230 million.  Wow is all you can say.

http://www.mobihealthnews.com/content/specialty-ehr-vendor-modernizing-medicine-raises-231m-warburg-pincus
May 25 2017

Capsule garners $20 million in new capital.  The company gets prescriptions from doctors via a mobile app and delivers prescriptions to the patient's home.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/capsule-corrals-20-million-for-new-pharmacy-model-1494415800
May 24 2017

Upfront Healthcare Services, which offers software to maximize patient visits, lands $6 million in financing.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/upfront-healthcare-services-lands-6-mln-series-a/
May 24 2017

The TealTech Mobile Medical Office has received its first investment, to support a platform for fast point of care diagnostics.

http://mhealthwatch.com/tealtech-capital-invests-in-mobile-medical-office-technology-platform-28340/
May 24 2017

$130 million is a lot of money; it is a lot of capital.  So why investors are giving it to Clover Health in a new financing round perplexes me, since it plows well-worn and not very fertile ground of doing data analytics and care coordination for Medicare Advantage patients.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/05/clover-health-raises-130m-in-expansion/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=51893516&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--PV5M37dk9lewMsGKcC-WuQu6TFnIT2BnOzj3oKrUx4kGxHF4lGEq-xAbGckIHvIu_LXezwfZeXqtRxoKVM40uJmDsLlVIF_xvQPaJqsngXD0cdVg&_hsmi=51893516
May 24 2017

HealthLoop ropes investors into a fresh $8.4 million funding to help coordinate post-hospital care.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/05/healthloop-raises-8-4m-series-b-round-build-commercial-teams/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=51975930&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-99XJfaCTsy4wg1Aml_LF-9uGwT5aKjQdCudUNgWU75Kg6yyiqBcu3RCNK82HGgfAlhzoI_PRRE08FDhZwFxrLKbmbWM1owYuGKDT2dTXYaTQe93RY&_hsmi=51975930
May 23 2017

Coordination of care communications platform Updox received $12.7 million in a new capital round.

https://www.updox.com/company/news-press-releases/updox-equity-announcement
May 23 2017

Lemonaid gathers $11 million in new funding to support its online health care platform.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/lemonaid-health-attracts-11-mln-series-a/
May 23 2017

Hospital supply and software vendor GHX apparently has been majority-acquired by a PE firm.

http://www.ghx.com/newsroomevents/news-releases/2017/ghx-receives-investment-from-temasek/
May 23 2017

Conversa, which, as the name suggests, facilitates health care conversations, raises $8 million in new capital.  Conversely, the investors just threw money down yet another all-talk, no action, rabbit hole.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/05/healthcare-conversation-platform-conversa-nabs-8-mln-series-a/
May 23 2017

I love my job, because you literally cannot make this stuff up.  Sync Project has raised $5 million to prove that its product using music can improve health outcomes, but wait, there's more, this will be personalized medicine (gotta hit at least one of the current buzzwords) because the music will be tailored to the patient's needs.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170516006817/en/Sync-Project-Announces-Investors-Accelerates-Development-Personalized
May 23 2017

A study at a single hospital examined whether an intensive bundled payment effort would reduce readmissions for COPD patients.  Despite the intervention, readmission rates were no different for the bundled payment patients, and while there were slight cost savings, they likely were outweighed by the cost of the intervention.

http://www.atsjournals.org/doi/abs/10.1513/AnnalsATS.201610-775BC