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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.

Jul 05 2016

Substance abuse treatment provider Bradford Health has received a significant investment from a PE firm to support continued expansion.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/centre-partners-announces-investment-in-bradford-health-services-300292857.html
Jul 05 2016

A study in the Journal of the American Board of Family Medicine finds that most smartphone fertility apps are inaccurate and basically useless.

http://www.fiercehealthcare.com/mobile/study-smartphone-fertility-apps-boast-little-accuracy-validity?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiTm1NeE9XUmhNRE16TVRrNSIsInQiOiJQdk80RGt4a0M0N1ZuQTBCS3B1dGg4MFg1cHFCcUpXb2RldUM5bjg1SkwxRTBFOE5ESUF6N3NnZTJ1K1RDdnhvT2daWFwvWTdVVVM1bXpmNDBVTEFtVlA4Sk5wbzBiOVdcL2VnMmE0d1wvU1wvdVE9In0%3D
Jul 05 2016

HealthVest, which operates inpatient psychiatric beds, has pocketed an additional $50 million in new financing.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/06/increase-behavioral-health-facilities/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=76f1963e51-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-76f1963e51-408793005&rf=1
Jul 05 2016

Population health vendors HealthRight and HealthNEXT are set to merge, with the new name being HealthHealth or RightNEXT or NEXTRight.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/07/healthright-healthnext-population-health/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=76f1963e51-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-76f1963e51-408793005&rf=1
Jun 30 2016

Telemedicine vendor Teladoc tells all of us that it is planning to acquire HealthiestYou, which does mobile patient engagement.
Jun 30 2016

iHealth, iwhich ihelps iproviders inavigate ifrom ifee-for-service ito ivalue-based ireimbursement ireceived ian iundisclosed iamount iof inew ifinancing.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/06/3341149/
Jun 30 2016

Google Capital has invested $46.4 million in Care.com, a site to help people find caregiving resources.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/06/3341306/
Jun 29 2016

Arcadia Solutions has a very interesting visual look at the course of patients' health care near the end of life, revealing where people die and what kind of services they use in the last year of life.

http://arcadiasolutions.com/final-year-visualizing-end-life/?submissionGuid=f2a9e2be-0226-4bd2-9f72-99b4abac6348
Jun 29 2016

A survey published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings supports the very low satisfaction physicians have with EHRs and order entry systems and finds that greater use of EHRs is associated with faster burnout.

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196(16)30215-4/abstract
Jun 28 2016

McKesson is merging its health information technology business with ChangeHealthcare.  It will receive cash of about $1.25 billion and will own around 70% of the combined company.  ChangeHealthcare is in the revenue cycle management and analytics business and is owned by a PE firm.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160628/NEWS/160629909?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160628-NEWS-160629909&utm_campaign=mh-alert
Jun 28 2016

Research in the British Medical Journal of Quality and Safety finds no association between a hospitals "safety culture" and the number of hospital-acquired infections.

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/resources/resource/30103
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