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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 15 2015

Welkin Health has received $2 million from venture groups to bolster investment in its population health management platform.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150714006264/en/Welkin-Health-Closes-2M-Seed-Partners-Humana’s#.VaZjRM65dHh
Jul 15 2015

Picwell has hopefully been picked well by investors, who have given the firm that aids consumers in selecting health insurance plans over $4 million in new funding.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/07/picwell-snaps-up-more-than-4-mln-series-a/
Jul 15 2015

2016 CMS Physician Payment Rule

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2015-07-15/pdf/2015-16875.pdf
Jul 14 2015

According to a survey by Kareo, two-thirds of physicians don't believe their EHR is producing a return on investment.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/68-of-physician-practices-say-they-haven-t-seen-roi-from-their-ehrs.html
Jul 14 2015

Pamplona Capital Management is acquiring Precyse, a vendor of a diverse mix of health information management services.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/precyse-enters-into-acquisition-agreement-with-pamplona-capital-management-300107676.html
Jul 14 2015

Bolder Healthcare Solutions has been on an acquisition tear and adds The ROI Companies to its organization.  Both firms are in the revenue cycle management business.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/bolder-healthcare-solutions-acquires-the-roi-companies-300104479.html
Jul 13 2015

SilverVue, a provider of unclear, at least from reading the press release, telehealth and care transition services, has acquired ProMD, which offers communications services between hospitals and recently discharged patients.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/silvervue-acquires-promd-and-expands-its-portfolio-of-hospital-readmissions-reduction-technologies-300107762.html
Jul 13 2015

Large publisher Elsevier has acquired InferMed, a clinical decision support software and content company, to add to Elsevier's suite of health information products.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/elsevier-acquires-infermed-provider-of-clinical-decision-support-technology-511137731.html
Jul 13 2015

Patient-monitoring firm CareView Communications has arranged for up to $40 million in debt financing.

http://www.nasdaq.com/press-release/careview-communications-announces-40-million-financing-transaction-with-pdl-biopharma-20150629-00949
Jul 13 2015

CMS' penalties for health care acquired infections in hospitals did not change the rate of such infections; i.e., the policy didn't work, according to research published in an infection control journal.

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25732568
Jul 13 2015

Scaling the heights of fishy journalism, the Washington Post reveals that fish oil supplements are a $1.2 billion industry with no scientific evidence of benefits.  This story isn't fin-ished yet.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/claims-that-fish-oil-boosts-health-linger-despite-science-saying-the-opposite/2015/07/08/db7567d2-1848-11e5-bd7f-4611a60dd8e5_story.html?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+First+Edition&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=20486241&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_1Ea0qA25cWKPqVfJWbH_wNi0r3qCzP0jSLzft2ZvKxlM-TMoROcalz6CsvtcNi1_Zql8ah0_zbUQ29HvimSWUqGeerQ&_hsmi=20486241
Jul 12 2015

The 2015 MedPAC Report to Congress

http://www.medpac.gov/documents/reports/june-2015-report-to-the-congress-medicare-and-the-health-care-delivery-system.pdf?sfvrsn=0
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