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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.

Sep 01 2016

Australian firm DoseMe gets a fresh dose of capital to take its personalized patient drug dosing software to the US.

http://www.startupdaily.net/2016/08/doseme-2-6-million-funding/
Aug 31 2016

Digital patient engagement platform vendor Zillion Group gets not a trillion, not a billion, but $28 million in new capital, which seems like $27.9 million too much.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/08/zillion-snags-28-mln-series-c/
Aug 30 2016

According to research firm Markets & Markets, the North American HIT market will have revenue of $104 billion by 2020, and I am sure buyers will feel like they got every penny worth of value.

http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/north-america-healthcare-it-market-1190.html
Aug 30 2016

EHR vendor athenahealth is buying Patient IO, a care coordination platform used to engage patients in their health needs.  EHR vendors are all trying to create more one-stop HIT shopping for their customers, and generally doing a lousy job at it.

http://newsroom.athenahealth.com/phoenix.zhtml?c=253091&p=irol-newsArticle&ID=2197867
Aug 30 2016

Medical staffing company CHG Healthcare continues to grow by acquiring Global Medical Staffing, a locum tenens business.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160825/NEWS/160829961?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160825-NEWS-160829961&utm_campaign=am
Aug 30 2016

Bloomlife has flowered into existence with a $4 million funding raise for its digital health applications for mothers and babies.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/womens-digital-health-startup-bloomlife-raises-4m-in-seed-funding-300313912.html
Aug 29 2016

Yet another PE firm is recapping Matrix Health, the vendor of Medicare risk adjustment services.  This time it is Frazier Healthcare in a deal reportedly worth $418 million.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160829/NEWS/160829924?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160829-NEWS-160829924&utm_campaign=financedaily
Aug 29 2016

Casetabs garners $2.6 million in a series A financing to support its surgery coordination software.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/08/prweb13613754.htm
Aug 29 2016

KRY, which offers technology for video consultations with physicians, has raised 6.1 million euros to expand its business from Sweden to international markets.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/19/video-call-your-doctor-startup-kry-raises-e6-1m-seed-led-by-index-and-creandum/
Aug 26 2016

N. Harris Computer Corp., which has a division offering health care IT services, is acquiring DigiChart, which provides EMRs for obstetricians and gynecologists.

http://www.harriscomputer.com/en/news/?date=1471233600&article=harris-rsquo-us-healthcare-group-acquires-digichart-inc-
Aug 26 2016

Telemedicine provider InTouch health is acquiring tele-neurology provider AcuteCare Telemedicine.

http://hitconsultant.net/2016/08/18/intouch-health-acquires-acutecare-telemedicine/
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