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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.

Aug 17 2017

Illinois-based DuPage Medical Group is being sold from one PE firm to another for $1.45 billion.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/summit-exits-dupage-medical-in-1-45-bln/
Aug 17 2017

eSolutions, which optimizes customers revenue cycle management processes, is buying RemitDATA, which offers data and analytics capabilities.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/pe-backed-esolutions-buys-remitdata/
Aug 16 2017

Happify Health is also happy to announce new funding, $9 million, to support its personal behavior change software and services platform.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/ttcp-leads-9-mln-round-for-happify-health/
Aug 16 2017

HealthJoy, which offers a health care decision-making platform, is ecstatic to happily announce that it is very pleased to add $3 million in joyful capital.

https://healthjoy.com/announcing-healthjoys-3-million-series-funding-round/
Aug 16 2017

Benefit optimization vendor Artremis Health garners $16 million in a new financing round.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/artremis-health-raises-16-mln/
Aug 15 2017

A few giant tech companies seek to dominate every aspect of our lives, including our health.  Google is buying health monitoring company Senosis Health to further its stealthy move into health.

https://www.geekwire.com/2017/exclusive-google-buys-seattle-health-monitoring-startup-senosis-bolstering-digital-health-push/
Aug 10 2017

Another PE firm has purchased a majority interest in Medical Knowledge, another company which is engaged in the honorable (and profitable) business of pimping for drug and biotech companies is pushing their products on consumers and providers.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/mts-recaps-medical-knowledge-group/
Aug 10 2017

Practice management firm Women's Health USA has been purchased by a PE firm.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/sverica-capital-buys-womens-health-usa/
Aug 10 2017

Oh boy, Buoy Health gets a lift by raising $6.7 million in new funding for its digital tools that help people get the right care!!  Sounds like a winner.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/08/health-tech-startup-buoy-health-rakes-in-6-7-mln-series-a/
Aug 10 2017

Groove Health gets a cool $1.6 million for its medication adherence platform.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/08/groove-health/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9pHeJpCZkAxh7OojChxQkfCFlKwL12KUOjO_P1vpcNCxI6fCi-YnQHha7hAVQrWRSoYJth9tDbf3Bq_DZ6Gm9Lhe7X92tlUukRGmcHQhH5sKcrlPQ&_hsmi=55108005&rf=1