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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 12 2015

Care at Hand has some cash on hand, having raised $560,000 in funding for its home care early warning mobile app.

http://snip.ly/BZxL?utm_source=StartUp+Health+Insider&utm_campaign=a256d6ab44-StartUp_Health_Weekly_News_08-12-2015&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_250bac26a5-a256d6ab44-312282157#http://mobihealthnews.com/45839/care-at-hand-raises-560000-for-health-analytics-offering/
Aug 12 2015

NTT DATA is acquiring InteHealth and its software that supports health care information sharing.

http://americas.nttdata.com/News/News/Press%20Releases/Press-Releases/2015-Press-Releases/NTT-DATA-Strengthens-Healthcare-Offering-Across-Continuum-of-Care.aspx
Aug 12 2015

Doctor appointment software vendor HotDoc gathers in some hot funding, $2.2 million.

http://www.afr.com/technology/medical-technology-startup-hotdoc-gets-22-million-airtree-ventures-backing-20150805-gismzk
Aug 11 2015

Marlin Equity Partners is acquiring AdvancedMD, which offers comprehensive EMR and practice management software for physician practices.

http://www.advancedmd.com/company/press/advancedmd-to-be-acquired-by-marlin-equity-partners
Aug 11 2015

Infobionics cashes in with $8 million in fresh capital, for its patient monitoring solution.

http://infobionic.com/infobionic-announces-8-million-series-b-1-financing/
Aug 11 2015

A company dedicated to helping veterans get better health care, Unite US, has received $4.3 million in funding.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/veteran-care-platform-unite-us-receives-43mm-to-fuel-software-growth-300124212.html
Aug 11 2015

Dapasoft, a Canadian vendor of health IT system integration and consulting services, has garnered $4 million in additional capital.

http://dapasoft.com/dapasoft-secures-investment-to-fuel-growth/
Aug 11 2015

Zest Health has raised $6 million from exuberant investors for its mobile app to help consumers make better purchasing decisions.

http://venturebeat.com/2015/08/04/zest-health-completes-6-million-series-a-financing/
Aug 10 2015

A KFF analysis finds that over half the country's hospitals will be penalized under CMS's patently flawed hospital readmissions reduction policy, which the agency has stubbornly refused to fix or enough acknowledge is very, very poorly designed.  Most of the hospitals that won't be penalized are exempt from being evaluated.

http://khn.org/news/half-of-nations-hospitals-fail-again-to-escape-medicares-readmission-penalties/
Aug 10 2015

According to an analysis by Modern Healthcare, non-profit health system executives continue to get extremely high compensation packages, many multi-million dollars, which has to make you wonder what the point of non-profit status is.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150808/MAGAZINE/308089988?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=externalURL&utm_campaign=hits
Aug 10 2015

Continuing an acquisition binge, Drive Medical has acquired DeVilbiss Medical, which offers respiratory and other home medical equipment.

http://www.hmenews.com/article/drive-medical-buys-devilbiss-healthcare?topic=61,62,63
Aug 10 2015

Public health system consulting and IT firm Advisory Board is buying Zeumo, which offers a communication system for hospitals and their affiliated physicians and staff.

http://www.tennessean.com/story/money/industries/health-care/2015/07/27/nashville-startup-zeumo-bought-advisory-board-co/30626413/
Aug 10 2015

Soon to be inconsolable investors have piled $12.6 million in fresh funding into Consolo, an HIT vendor for hospice and palliative care.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/consolo-services-group-secures-126-million-from-bluff-point-associates-300115697.html
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