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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 30 2016

Medical staffing company CHG Healthcare continues to grow by acquiring Global Medical Staffing, a locum tenens business.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160825/NEWS/160829961?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160825-NEWS-160829961&utm_campaign=am
Aug 30 2016

Bloomlife has flowered into existence with a $4 million funding raise for its digital health applications for mothers and babies.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/womens-digital-health-startup-bloomlife-raises-4m-in-seed-funding-300313912.html
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