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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.

Jun 29 2017

Your.MD gathers $10 million in new financing for "the world's smartest AI health information service", but as far as I can tell all they really do is pimp products for drug manufacturers and other health product makers.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/yourmd-closes-funding-round-for-10-million-led-by-orkla-ventures-631020543.html
Jun 29 2017

Glooko receives $25 million in a new round of financing for its diabetes management app.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/06/glooko-closes-35m-series-c-round-ratchet-expansion-data-analytics-capabilities/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9G-vK6OIGwPx1Sul_0B5sf1zWGJ6k6RNELjfD86XTIzyzek590PqE7ntJ2GZu9QKaNjfFEEAMZZLA3cA5trI9UhsFXZETkuM7F32dSo2Wq_RNIKyA&_hsmi=53661304
Jun 28 2017

Klinify helps doctors migrate EHRs and has received some new financing from Zuellig Pharma.

https://www.digitalnewsasia.com/startups/zuellig-pharma-invests-healthtech-startup-klinify
Jun 28 2017

Consumer navigation firm Quantum Health has been recapitalized by a PE firm.

http://quantum-health.com/News-Events/2017/Quantum-Health-Completes-Recapitalization-with-Great-Hill-Partners.shtml
Jun 27 2017

Don't work up a sweat about it, but Kenzen has raised $5 million for its wearable sweat sensing equipment.  Just use your nose, Dude.

https://internetofbusiness.com/wearable-kenzen-raises-5m/
Jun 27 2017

The federal government can't keep the NSA from being hacked, but let's fine health plan Anthem $115 million dollars, which consumers ultimately pay, for a data breach.

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/privacy-security/anthem-agrees-to-115m-settlement-over-2015-data-breach?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWTJJMllqZzNOMk5rTURVNCIsInQiOiJIcE5tZG05TUJLVDBjbWdLb0p5aExzUU5KNnh1VlZGTDJIV1EwQ0pEV3Awd0tSbkNIXC9jVW9RdGNuN21UYWxvSHJtVWVVNzdnVWZWMjdkMURITHJ1VVZNK1pLXC9oQVNzcEgyMmx0bjJuK1FFK2pZa1pHTGV2dXFaTjd5XC94Z0dnQyJ9
Jun 27 2017

Regroup Therapy, a provider of video-based mental health services, receives $6 million in fresh financing.

http://www.builtinchicago.org/2017/06/15/regroup-therapy-raises-6m
Jun 27 2017

MyHealthTeams has attracted a fresh $7.3 million in capital for its thinly-veiled drug marketing services.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/06/myhealthteams-raises-7-3m-give-fuller-picture-patient-experience-pharma-sector/
Jun 26 2017

Healthbuds, which helps connect patients and medical services, has received a seed investment.

https://www.startupwine.com/healthbuds-health-tech-startup-amounts-seed-investments/
Jun 26 2017

Large health IT vendor Cognizant is acquiring TMG Health, a subsidiary of HCSC, which provides administrative services for Medicare and Medicaid health plans.

http://investors.cognizant.com/2017-06-13-Cognizant-and-Health-Care-Service-Corporation-HCSC-Expand-Strategic-Relationship-Cognizant-to-Purchase-HCSC-Subsidiary-TMG-Health-and-Enter-into-Multi-Year-Services-Agreement
Jun 26 2017

Genome Medical, which plans to offer inexpensive genetic counseling sessions, has raised $12 million in capital.

http://www.cnbc.com/2017/05/23/genome-medical-training-experts-to-interpret-genome-sequencing.html
Jun 23 2017

Nuvolo, which tracks performance of equipment in hospitals, has raised a new $10 million in funding.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/06/heres-not-sexy-cloud-startup-just-raised-10m-ge-nea/?_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8YeVIjsY3xBoAwN8rqKh8zh0sPmuGeWZilfh-R31V50u9swOcWkrMWHuzsjK-px3B830zaM5nk8coruWtxZpnBl30DWSQEE-aWlXoZ8CAgZHk5cB0&_hsmi=53492619&rf=1