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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.

Nov 03 2016

Catapult Health has leapt forward with $10 million in fresh capital to jump-start its offering of nurses who make workplace wellness visits.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20161102/NEWS/161109976?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20161102-NEWS-161109976&utm_campaign=hits
Nov 03 2016

PlushCare raises a luxurious $8 million to support its cushy online urgent care business.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/11/plushcare-raises-8-mln/#
Nov 02 2016

ConcertoHealth, an operator of clinics for the elderly, has orchestrated a $30 million infusion of capital, music to management's ears.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/11/concertohealth-rakes-in-30-mln/
Nov 01 2016

Telemedicine vendor Avizia has wrapped up a $17 million capital raise.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/10/avizia-ny-presbyterian-investment/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=36803463&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_TM5kCGT5kX-FQx27IQSbLHQ5mH4z-PCHaTWogOQh3j73AOYNPLUYpfzcpxtB_SGRMfI0IfP7nmYkaKucV80ccYMX0NKDy_bUTDPltp3tEdPfP-bw&_hsmi=36803463
Nov 01 2016

Private equity firm Blackstone is buying health care staffing giant Team Health for around $3.2 billion.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/blackstone-to-acquire-team-health-for-about-3-2-billion-1477916987
Oct 31 2016

Zimmer Biomet has purchased telerehabilitation service vendor RespondWell.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/10/zimmer-biomet-snaps-up-interactive-telerehabilitation-business-respondwell/?rf=1
Oct 28 2016

Behavioral health IT vendor Netsmart Technologies is making what it hopes is an intelligent acquisitions, buying long-term care software firm HealthMEDX.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/10/netsmart-acquires-healthmedx/?rf=1
Oct 28 2016

Research in Health Affairs finds that Medicare hospice spending rose to almost $16 billion in 2015, up from $10.4 billion in 2007, and that this spending has significant geographic variation, suggesting an opportunity to ensure appropriate use of the setting.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/35/10/1902.abstract
Oct 28 2016

Braincheck, a mobile app for evaluating brain health, has raised $3 million.  Another example where the investors might have wanted to use the product before investing.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/10/braincheck-scores-3-mln/
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