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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.

Jul 21 2015

According to a story in the Wall Street Journal, the color and shape of a pill may affect your perceptions of how well the drug it contains will work.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/judging-a-pill-by-its-color-1437406452
Jul 21 2015

Spotlighting its mobile health insurance sales app, Limelight Health has garnered $3 million in fresh funding.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/07/limelight-health-scores-3-mln-series-a/
Jul 21 2015

Investors have injected $8 million into Axial Healthcare, a pain management firm which helps avoid abuse of pain drugs.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/07/axial-healthcare-grabs-8-mln/
Jul 21 2015

Investors analyzing 1DocWay have given it $1.7 million for its telepsychiatry business.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/07/telepsychiatry-business-1docway-raises-1-7m-to-support-expansion-to-10-states/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=3b2e436639-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-3b2e436639-67677117
Jul 20 2015

Cardinal Health is acquiring medication therapy management vendor OutcomesMTM for an undisclosed price.

http://cardinalhealth.mediaroom.com/OutcomesMTM
Jul 16 2015

Lybrate has added $10.2 million in capital to facilitate its business of connecting doctors and patients in India.

http://techcrunch.com/2015/07/09/lybrate/
Jul 16 2015

Benestream, which assists companies and brokers in enrolling patients in Medicaid plans, has raised $4.26 million.

http://benestream.com/news-release-benestream-raises-series-a-round/
Jul 16 2015

MedCenter Display, which displays great ingenuity by calling itself a patient engagement company when its business is making medical site signs, raised $2.3 million in funding.

https://www.nashvillepost.com/blogs/postbusiness/2015/7/10/medcenter_display_closes_23m_funding_round
Jul 16 2015

Global Excel Management has acquired Olympus Managed Healthcare.  Both companies offer claims and management and cost containment services.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/07/prweb12826016.htm
Jul 16 2015

Accolade has garnered another $22.5 million in funding to support ongoing sales growth for its patient engagement service.

http://pevc.dowjones.com/Article?an=DJFVW00120150716eb7gazw01&cid=3025009&ctype=hs&from=Investments&ReturnUrl=http%3a%2f%2fpevc.dowjones.com%2fArticle%3fan%3dDJFVW00120150716eb7gazw01%26cid%3d3025009%26ctype%3dhs%26from%3dInvestments
Jul 15 2015

IPC Healthcare, the staffing and specialist company which tends to grow by acquisition, has acquired two post-acute care provider groups in New York, one in psychiatry and one in internal medicine.

http://globenewswire.com/news-release/2015/06/25/747476/10139720/en/IPC-Healthcare-Acquires-Two-Practices-in-New-York.html
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