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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.

Sep 17 2015

Clockwise MD decided its time to raise some funds, without a second to lose, getting  a minute $1 million to support its software to help patients and providers identify wait times.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/09/clockwisemd-raises-1m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=37502e64e0-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-37502e64e0-408793005
Sep 17 2015

A study in Health Affairs suggests that the neighborhood you grow up in likely has little association with your risk for developing certain chronic diseases, suggesting that early interventions are not likely to be efficacious in reducing prevalence of these diseases.

http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/34/9/1472.abstract?=right
Sep 16 2015

Omada reels in another $48 million in financing to support its patient intervention to prevent and manage obesity-related diseases.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/norwest-leads-48-mln-funding-in-omada-health/
Sep 16 2015

Lumity is receiving $14 in new capital for its software that helps businesses analyze their health benefit costs and designs.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/digital-health-startup-lumity-raises-14-mln/
Sep 16 2015

Theorem Clinical Research, a full-service CRO, is really, not theoretically, being sold by its private equity owner to Chiltern International.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150915006106/en/Nautic-Partners-LLC-Announces-Sale-Theorem-Clinical#.VfmGYLS5dHg
Sep 16 2015

Large dental supply firm Dentsply is acquiring competitor Sirona Dental for $5.5 billion.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/business/dealbook/dentsply-to-acquire-sirona-dental-for-5-5-billion.html?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=22074792&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_p_iA9MCAcjWe0XRXQDBO2uV9e20H0Rq0i3N9KsroqS4N1laawnWwqfC8oOgumtqlG91dwsNWJU00W6tMjnaFTI_fzPH-nRB0sHqlG5dDpDNQJxq0&_hsmi=22074792&_r=0
Sep 16 2015

Proving that making lots of money doesn't make a company smarter, Google is apparently investing $32.5 million in struggling "new style" insurer Oscar, at a $1.75 billion.  So far Oscar has mostly shown it needs a good actuary.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/google-backs-startup-oscar-health-insurance-1442374756?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=22074792&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-8cZicOlwwg6VnAY8BWJDTC6HEnJvoFIt1anPy0KOLFgcLspdcIO6GE6qyxEM7d5Z802aQ4KfV7fRrAr3tRdQ4ubVrtgd0dOHOuRzwwxxT0Bn4UjNE&_hsmi=22074792
Sep 15 2015

India-based Practo Health, a doctor search platform, is buying Insta Health, which offers health management services to mostly overseas hospitals.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/09/14/doctor-search-portal-practo-buys-hospital-management-platform-insta-health-for-12m/
Sep 15 2015

Persivia, which aims to be a precision medicine and health analytics firm, is buying IHM Services Company, which provides clinical intelligence to hospitals.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/09/persivia-health-it-big-data/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=80d7526ff1-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-80d7526ff1-408793005
Sep 15 2015

Qualcomm Life, which does health-related business for its parent Qualcomm Communications is acquiring Capsule Technologies, which in a nutshell provides connectivity with medical devices and other data integration.

http://webinfo.capsuletech.com/capsule-qualcomm-life-company
Sep 15 2015

New research in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that half the difference in readmission rates among hospitals can be explained by characteristics of the patients they treat, further demonstrating the poor design of the CMS penalty program.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/federal-eye/wp/2015/09/14/medicare-unfairly-penalizes-hospitals-treating-sickest-poorest-patients-study-finds/
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