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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 28 2016

McKesson is merging its health information technology business with ChangeHealthcare.  It will receive cash of about $1.25 billion and will own around 70% of the combined company.  ChangeHealthcare is in the revenue cycle management and analytics business and is owned by a PE firm.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20160628/NEWS/160629909?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20160628-NEWS-160629909&utm_campaign=mh-alert
Jun 28 2016

Research in the British Medical Journal of Quality and Safety finds no association between a hospitals "safety culture" and the number of hospital-acquired infections.

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/resources/resource/30103
Jun 28 2016

Patient falls in hospitals are not uncommon, but are often considered as "never" events.  An Australian study finds that implementation of common interventions to reduce such falls had no effect on their occurrence, indicating a waste of hospital staff time.

https://psnet.ahrq.gov/resources/resource/30134
Jun 28 2016

A study in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that nurse practitioners and physician assistants prescribe "low-value" health treatments roughly as often as physicians.

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2529481
Jun 28 2016

Bolder Healthcare Solutions takes a bold step, buying Healthcare Receivables, another firm in the revenue cycle management business.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/06/bolder-healthcare-solutions-buys/
Jun 26 2016

HealthPrize, which offers incentives to encourage patients to meet health goals, has raised an undisclosed B round of capital for expansion.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/06/healthprize-closes-series-b-round/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=d6a766c55e-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-d6a766c55e-408793005
Jun 25 2016

Reflexion, which helps patients do remote physical therapy, has raised $18 million in fresh capital.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/06/reflexion-health-raises-18m-series-b-remote-patient-monitoring-rehab/
Jun 23 2016

2016 Medicare Trustees Report

https://www.cms.gov/Research-Statistics-Data-and-Systems/Statistics-Trends-and-Reports/ReportsTrustFunds/Downloads/TR2016.pdf
Jun 22 2016

Iggbo raises $13 million to find a new name, no seriously, it will support expansion of its on demand phlebotomy and testing services.

https://www.pehub.com/2016/06/3339559/
Jun 22 2016

Kit Check, which helps providers track drug and supply inventories, garners $15 million in fresh capital.

http://medcitynews.com/2016/06/drug-tracking-tech-developer-kit-check/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=d950825168-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-d950825168-408793005&rf=1