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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.

Feb 06 2017

Research in Health Affairs finds that Medicare's value-based purchasing program, which has a heavy component of patient satisfaction scores, has had no impact on those scores in hospitals.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/36/1/133.abstract
Feb 06 2017

Teleneurology provider Specialists On Call has called on NeuroCall to join forces, merging to form a new provider named Call on Call.

http://medcitynews.com/2017/02/specialists-on-call-acquires-neurocall/?utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=41974385&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--jY6e1zekbzHSzfZo2bjlYvqW8aBObdo2N9C1bC0TVpzmFsS_b4iHXCECdVVQ6dqRdwgq1n_lk1nyyxvhBzMl11W2usNfhVHXaS4r-jY2cPY_gGWo&_hsmi=41974385
Feb 03 2017

2018 Medicare Advantage Advance Notice and Call Letter

https://www.cms.gov/Medicare/Health-Plans/MedicareAdvtgSpecRateStats/Downloads/Advance2018.pdf
Feb 03 2017

PointClickCare is foregoing a public offering, instead raising $85 million in private capital to expand its long-term care and assisted living software business.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/02/pointclickcare-scores-85-mln/
Feb 02 2017

According to a study in a Swiss hospital, resident physicians spent almost three times as much time on the computer as seeing patients, or about half their total work time.

http://annals.org/aim/article/2599281/allocation-internal-medicine-resident-time-swiss-hospital-time-motion-study
Feb 02 2017

A new paper at the National Bureau of Economic Research suggests that the US health system is "uniquely inefficient" based on a study of the diffusion of use of low-value drugs here in comparison to four other developed countries.

http://www.nber.org/papers/w23068.pdf
Jan 31 2017

Auxilio, which offers document workflow and security services for the health care industry, is acquiring CynergisTek, a provider of health care cybersecurity and privacy solutions.  Undoubtedly a "cynergistek" acquistion.

http://cynergistek.com/auxilio-acquire-cynergistek/
Jan 31 2017

EHR and practice management software seller Aprima Medical Software has found a prime deal, acquiring EHR reseller Healthcare Data Solutions.

https://www.aprima.com/news/aprima-medical-software-acquires-ehr-reseller-healthcare-data-solutions
Jan 31 2017

Proactive MD, which operates workplace health centers, is acquiring Verimoov, which has a patient engagement software set.  Now you can get a Very Active workplace or a ProMoov.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/proactive-md-announces-acquisition-of-verimoov-llc-300387211.html
Jan 31 2017

DirectPath, which offers employee health engagement services, has taken a new road, acquiring Patient Care, a patient advocacy and transparency company.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20170110005248/en/DirectPath-Acquire-Patient-Care