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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 04 2017

Radiology Partners gets a whopping $200 million in new capital to grow its on-site radiology business.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170503005186/en/Radiology-Partners-Receives-200-Million-Investment
May 04 2017

EverlyWell gets a lasting commitment of $5 million in fresh financing for its business of providing at-home lab test kits, which lead to "beautifully redesigned results".  Not my words, the company's, who writes these things anyway, the figurative one million monkeys banging away on a keyboard.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170503005023/en/EverlyWell-Raises-Additional-Capital-Bringing-Total-5
May 04 2017

Use of imaging has declined in the last 7 years, due to government and private payer efforts to rein in excessive use, according to a study in Health Affairs.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/36/4/663.abstract
May 03 2017

Research in Health Affairs suggests that controlling risk factors like smoking, hypertension and obesity would eliminate half of disability in the US.
May 02 2017

There aren't enough patient engagement companies, so Catalia Health is starting another one with the help of $2.5 million in new investment.  It features an AI robot that will tailor individual conversations with patients.  I am sure the 80 year olds who represent a lot of spending will go for that.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170501005318/en/Catalia-Health-Raises-2.5M-Funding-Deploy-Intelligent
May 01 2017

Catasys has completed a $15 million IPO for its analytics and prediction software covering behavioral health services.

https://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Catasys+Announces+Closing+of+%2415+Million+Public+Offering/12832763.html
May 01 2017

Evidation Health garners $12 million in new capital to support providing real-life data from connected patients.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/04/evidation-health-takes-in-10-mln/
Apr 28 2017

Secure health care communications vendor Doc Halo gets a heavenly $11 million in new capital, not from angel investors but institutions.

http://www.vcnewsdaily.com/doc-halo/venture-capital-funding/bvdzwmmyhw
Apr 28 2017

In a masterpiece of hype, UK-based Babylon announces that it has raised $60 million to develop the world's best artificial intelligence platform for health care.  You have to read this press release.

https://www.babylonhealth.com/press-release-25-april-2017