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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.

Dec 10 2015

According to results of a survey published in the Mayo Clinic Proceedings, burnout among doctors is increasing, as is dissatisfaction with work/life balance.  Half of physicians express burnout and dissatisfaction.

http://www.mayoclinicproceedings.org/article/S0025-6196%2815%2900716-8/pdf
Dec 09 2015

Research in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that an intervention to lessen use of "low-value" services, in this case, imaging for back pain or headache or bone density testing, by using fake patients and then counseling young physicians, did not work.  Maybe we should rely more on doctors' judgment about the value of services and maybe we should recognize their risk-aversion, given the malpractice world they live in.

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=2472948
Dec 09 2015

Troubled revenue cycle management firm Accretive has received lifeline financing and a long-term contract from a group headed by hospital chain Ascension Health.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20151208/NEWS/151209891?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20151208-NEWS-151209891&utm_campaign=am
Dec 09 2015

Health care transparency and consumer engagement firm Vitals garnered $41 million in new financing for its buzzword business.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/12/goldman-sachs-backs-vitals/
Dec 09 2015

Melody Health Insurance is singing a happy tune and ending the year on an upbeat note, adding $3.8 million to support entry as a health insurer into new markets.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/12/melody-health-insurance-collects-3-8-mln/
Dec 09 2015

A study published in the British Journal of General Practice finds that physicians who don't prescribe antibiotics when patients think they should get them are likely to have lower satisfaction scores, demonstrating again the conflict between expecting physicians to have high satisfaction scores and punishing them for not following care guidelines.

http://www.upi.com/Health_News/2015/12/07/Study-Patients-less-satisfied-with-doctors-who-prescribe-fewer-antibiotics/6851449499931/
Dec 08 2015

One Medical gets $65 million in a new investment round as it expands its "technology-enabled" primary care model.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/12/one-medical-raises-65-mln-in-growth-capital/
Dec 08 2015

MD Revolution gets $23 million in fresh capital as it ramps up its business of helping physicians maximize Medicare chronic disease management reimbursement.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/12/md-revolution-raises-23m-to-boost-staff-product-develoment/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=44060c4cee-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-44060c4cee-408793005&rf=1
Dec 08 2015

Twine has strung together (or strung along) more investors and roped in an additional $6.7 million in capital to expand its health coaching business.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/12/patient-coaching-for-chronic-conditions/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=44060c4cee-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-44060c4cee-408793005&rf=1
Dec 08 2015

Its private equity owner is selling home care firm American HomePatient to Lincare, which offers home respiratory therapy, for an undisclosed sum.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/12/highland-capital-to-sell-american-homepatient-to-lincare/
Dec 07 2015

Shortly after we learned that growth in health spending accelerated in 2014, the ECRI Institute says that new devices and drugs working their way to market in the near future will add $80 billion in annual spending.

https://www.ecri.org/press/Pages/ECRI-Institute-80-Billion-Annual-Spend-Drug-Device-Therapies.aspx?
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