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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.

Jun 02 2016

Fruit Street Health raises a zany $5.4 million from physicians in a crowdfunding for something or other, maybe having to do with wearables, data, population health, a real fruit salad.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/06/telehealth-nutrition-consults/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4b2f86a692-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-4b2f86a692-408793005&rf=1
Jun 02 2016

RubiconMD has raised $4 million to support its business of reducing unnecessary use of specialist doctors.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/06/rubiconmd-raises-4m-series-a-round/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=4b2f86a692-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-4b2f86a692-408793005&rf=1
May 28 2016

Society of Actuaries Report on 2017 Exchange Premiums

http://www.actuary.org/files/publications/IB.Drivers5.15.pdf
May 27 2016

IMS Health is acquiring Privacy Analytics, which has tools to anonymize health information.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20160525005195/en/IMS-Health-Acquires-Privacy-Analytics-Advancing-Real-World
May 27 2016

Covtiviti, which audits health care payments on behalf of CMS and commercial insurers, did an IPO raising over $230 million, but its stock closing off the offering price.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160526/NEWS/160529925?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160526-NEWS-160529925&utm_campaign=am
May 27 2016

Lumiata lights it up with $10 million in new capital for, wait for it, a predictive analytics tool for population health management.  Ooohhh, cool.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/05/lumiata-raises-10m-ramp-product-development-predictive-analytics-risk-assessment/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=cd64fe67dd-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-cd64fe67dd-408793005&rf=1
May 25 2016

Hopefully large software vendor SAP isn't being played for a sap by making an $18 million investment in health care price transparency firm Castlight, whose shares are down mightily following its IPO and which apparently still needs capital after blowing through tens of millions of dollars.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160520/NEWS/160519874?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160520-NEWS-160519874&utm_campaign=hits
May 25 2016

Apixio has raised $19.3 million for its "cognitive" search tools that help find "actionable" data in EMRs.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/05/apixio/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=106ea8bde5-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-106ea8bde5-408793005&rf=1
May 23 2016

clover

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Showing its in the clover, new-fangled health plan Clover Health finds $160 million in fresh capital to support expansion, and its likely underpricing of the health care costs it is assuming, see Oscar Health, e.g.

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