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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 09 2016

Home health care technology firm Honor gathers a hefty $42 million in fresh funding.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/08/3346893/
Aug 09 2016

Aligned Telehealth gets $12 million in financing to aid in its behavioral health focused telemedicine service.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/08/aligned-telehealth-takes-in-12-mln-series-a/
Aug 09 2016

Survey and patient satisfaction firm Press Ganey is being acquired by a PE firm for $2 billion.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160809/NEWS/160809911?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160809-NEWS-160809911&utm_campaign=mh-alert
Aug 06 2016

Teledermatology company 3Derm garners $3 million for expansion.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/08/3derm-teledermatology-business/?rf=1
Aug 06 2016

Online EMR vendor Elation is ecstatic to receive a joyous $15 in new funding from ebullient investors.

https://techcrunch.com/2016/08/04/elation-health-receives-15m-to-take-another-crack-at-electronic-health-records/
Aug 04 2016

Providence Health, a Washington state-based health system, is acquiring Medicast, which has a mobile app for physician house calls.

http://mobihealthnews.com/content/providence-st-joseph-health-acquires-medicast-early-app-enabled-house-call-service-provider
Aug 04 2016

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ESO Solutions gets a “strategic” investment (apparently some lack strategy, which I can believe) from PE firms to support growth for its emergency services EMR.

Aug 04 2016

Medicare's hospital readmission penalty, which we have repeatedly described as unfair and inept, is now punishing more than half the country's hospitals, with a cumulative revenue loss of over $500 million.

http://khn.org/news/more-than-half-of-hospitals-to-be-penalized-for-excess-readmissions/
Aug 04 2016

Another drug company service firm, CRO Medpace, is seeking to go public and raise as much as $151 million.

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/medpace-seeks-151m-ipo-says-cro-industry-worth-31b-by-decade-s-end?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRCaU9HSTBNek5sWVRaaiIsInQiOiJwa2Vpa1FZY05nN2V4b1hiS0dsWE42MEswMmNCVFYrMzVHRWloYVVBZnA3cFlyRU1xTVJET0NBQW9sd3JFTGUxYnJZOHprUWV6RFNOVXZrMzBFZkFidzNQVTU5YXh5Z1FVbTlFYmxxQnlYVT0ifQ%3D%3D
Aug 04 2016

Drug marketing service firm Inventiv has cancelled its return as a public company, instead taking a huge investment from a PE firm.

http://www.fiercebiotech.com/cro/inventiv-cancels-ipo-as-it-announces-major-investment-from-advent?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal&mrkid=635530&mkt_tok=eyJpIjoiWkRCaU9HSTBNek5sWVRaaiIsInQiOiJwa2Vpa1FZY05nN2V4b1hiS0dsWE42MEswMmNCVFYrMzVHRWloYVVBZnA3cFlyRU1xTVJET0NBQW9sd3JFTGUxYnJZOHprUWV6RFNOVXZrMzBFZkFidzNQVTU5YXh5Z1FVbTlFYmxxQnlYVT0ifQ%3D%3D
Aug 04 2016

GoHealth, the operator of an online health insurance marketplace, is acquiring health insurance agency Connected Benefits to facilitate offering of group plans.

http://www.chicagotribune.com/bluesky/originals/ct-gohealth-acquisition-group-insurance-bsi-20160722-story.html