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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.

Mar 19 2017

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Traffk is acquiring Capsci Health, exchanging the “k” in its name for the extra “ci” at the end of Capsci, so that it can spell “Traffic” correctly.  The former company has “massive data analytics and insurance underwriting technology”, according to the press release. Not sure how mass relates to quality of a product, unless its weight lifting equipment.  The acquired firm has a really, really unique product that offers members mobile access to material related to their health plan.  I can’t have seen more than a hundred similar offerings.

Mar 17 2017

Cohero, another digital health company, raised an undisclosed amount of new funding.  You have to wonder what they are doing with all this money.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/03/cohero-health-nabs-funding/
Mar 17 2017

Livingo, which offers digital health for chronic health conditions, lives on with another $52.5 million in funding.  You have to wonder what they are doing with all that money.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/03/livongo-health-rakes-in-52-5-mln/
Mar 16 2017

CareDox secures $6.4 million in Series A financing to support its platform that connects schools, providers and patients to improve children's health.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/03/caredox-nabs-6-4-mln-series-a/
Mar 15 2017

Telemedicine vendor GlobalMed gets worldly, acquiring TreatMd, which also has a software platform facilitating telehealth visits.

https://www.globalmed.com/globalmed-announces-acquisition-treatmd/
Mar 15 2017

New-fangled prenatal care support company Lucy has raised around $2 million in funding.

https://pitchbook.com/newsletter/lucy-closes-2m-seed-financing
Mar 15 2017

Fraud and abuse prevention vendor Verisys has gathered $72.5 million in new investments.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20170314/NEWS/170319963?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20170314-NEWS-170319963&utm_campaign=financedaily
Mar 14 2017

CarePredict secures an undisclosed amount of financing to build its wearable health status tracker for seniors.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/03/las-olas-backs-carepredict/
Mar 14 2017

Babel Health raises $1.5 million in new financing for its risk prediction business.

https://www.pehub.com/2017/03/babel-health-takes-in-1-5-mln/
Mar 14 2017

Biometric screening firm Hooper Holmes is buying Provant Health, which offers wellness services to employers.

https://globenewswire.com/news-release/2017/03/08/933239/0/en/Hooper-Holmes-and-Provant-to-Merge.html