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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 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/
Aug 25 2016

ClearCare gets $60 million to growth its home care agency software business.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/08/clearcare-racks-up-60-mln-in-battery-led-round/
Aug 25 2016

CRF Health is acquiring Entra Health, both companies are in the business of offering technology solutions to assist with clinical trials.

http://resources.crfhealth.com/h/i/276102966-crf-health-acquires-entra-health-a-global-leader-in-digital-health-solutions
Aug 24 2016

According to research in PLOS, physicians only look at about half of computerized messages from pharmacists and just one-third of the time do they comply with a request that they take some action regarding to drug therapies.

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/resources/resource/30349
Aug 24 2016

A Health Affairs article notes that health information exchange efforts are faltering, limiting the ability for providers and payers to broadly share clinical information.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/35/7/1204.abstract
Aug 23 2016

Stealthy, healthy, startup 98point6 has raised $11 million for its technology that will "dramatically" lower primary care costs, although it is not clear exactly how; something about doctors using technology to communicate with patients.  Kind of like Oscar was going to use technology to lower health insurance costs and oh, how is that working out?

http://www.geekwire.com/2016/stealthy-healthcare-startup-98point6-raises-11m-dramatically-lower-cost-primary-care/
Aug 23 2016

Viewics gets $10.5 million in capital to support a business of helping hospitals manage diseases better.

https://viewics.com/resources/viewics-secures-10-5-million-in-capital-closes-funding-to-bring-advanced-analytics-to-healthcare/
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