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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 18 2017

Ability Network, which offers technology for health care administrative tasks, demonstrates an ability to sniff out a good deal, hounding ShiftHound til the health care technology workforce manager agrees to be bought.

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/04/03/953691/0/en/ABILITY-Network-Acquires-ShiftHound.html
Apr 18 2017

Predictive analytics company OM1 raises $15 million in new financing, as investors meditate on its chances for success.

http://bostinno.streetwise.co/2017/04/06/general-catalyst-leads-15m-for-om1-predictive-healthcare-analytics/
Apr 18 2017

My BS meter went way up on this one.  India-based company Practo Technologies, which offers a health care technology platform and has raised a lot of money to support it, is laying off 150 employees in what it referred to as part of the annual appraisal process.  Uhhh, we appraise that our company isn't doing very well, so we don't need you any more.

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/small-biz/startups/practo-technologies-sacks-150-employees-as-part-of-annual-performance-cycle/articleshow/58056510.cms
Apr 17 2017

A Mercer survey finds that over half of all large employers offer a high-deductible plan, but only 1/4 of workers enroll in them.  Only 6% of large employers make it the only choice, even though the plans lower cost.

https://www.mercer.com/content/dam/mercer/attachments/private/gl-2017-health-national-survey-infographic-series-mercer.pdf
Apr 17 2017

CloudVault health leaps to the sky with a $2.6 million funding round for its health system security technology.

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/cloudvault-health-announces-26-million-series-a-funding-round-436685.php
Apr 17 2017

Okay, its getting weird out there, or maybe wired.  Palarum secures $3.4 million to develop products with a fabric that will monitor and report patients' movements.  Its an IoT play.  ooooohhhhh

https://www.newswire.com/news/new-healthcare-iot-company-focused-on-patient-safety-secures-3-4m-in-19186956
Apr 15 2017

Medicare's policy of not paying for certain hospital-acquired conditions produces the greatest reductions in these events in hospitals that have the greatest proportion of Medicare revenue to total revenue, according to research in Medical Care.

http://journals.lww.com/lww-medicalcare/Abstract/2017/05000/Impact_of_Medicare_s_Nonpayment_Program_on.1.aspx
Apr 14 2017

Health care system interoperability software vendor Sansoro Health raises $5.2 million in new capital.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/04/sansoro-health-series-a-interoperabiliy/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=50674858&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-94XwVyshPd6Qv230avLDT0XNTi1V3KO69LoV4UNZH75cAvQoJtud4ZmT-ThdHCDv7US2ua-Av4FRVS_kbpQ0B4keDQlMn0DWrqJeegQlf81Kf4gG4&_hsmi=50674858&rf=1
Apr 14 2017

Hospital readmissions are lower when informal caregivers are integrated into discharge planning activities, according to a meta-analysis in the Journal of the American Geriatrics Society.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jgs.14873/full
Apr 13 2017

2017 MedPAC Report to Congress

http://www.medpac.gov/docs/default-source/reports/mar17_entirereport.pdf?sfvrsn=0
Apr 13 2017

Quality Systems, a vendor of EHR and other health care software, through its NextGen subsidiary, is acquiring Entrada Systems for $34 million, kind of astounding since Entrada has revenue of $12 million and a loss of $2 million.  Entrada has a mobile app that allows patients to access EHR and other provider systems.

https://bridge.nextgen.com/media/4493/PRESS_RELEASE-NextGen_Healthcare_Announces_Plans_to_Acquire_Entrada.pdf
Apr 13 2017

Blink Health quickly garners $90 million in fresh funding to support its software that allows patients to order generic medications online and pick them up locally.  Investors hope their capital doesn't disappear in a Blink.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/04/blink-health-raises-90m-boost-prescription-drug-price-transparency/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=50589075&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--M4-TnzEznXp-PUeidV_i2rYy5-typ50oZ9BGgr_FYvxUGverrM1JykO8fcAwXF00TZLRJSk8Je1QZAZVZdsjLw6LCx7ARjgsHOeHjGka3aKzwC5o&_hsmi=50589075&rf=1
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