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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.

May 28 2015

Cleardata, which helps health care organizations with data security and privacy, has raised $25 million in additional capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/05/cleardata-raises-25-mln/
May 28 2015

2016 Proposed Medicare Hospital Payment Rule

https://www.federalregister.gov/articles/2015/04/30/2015-09245/medicare-program-hospital-inpatient-prospective-payment-systems-for-acute-care-hospitals-and-the
May 26 2015

Jiff has raised a quick $23.3 million in fresh capital to hold fast to its strategy of offering a speedy wellness program software platform and rapidly gaining new customers.  Its either that or sell more peanut butter.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/05/employer-wellness-investment-jiff/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=90d371b242-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-90d371b242-67648197
May 26 2015

ABRY Partners is buying FastMed, an urgent care center provider in North Carolina and Arizona.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/05/abry-partners-to-acquire-fastmed-urgent-care/
May 26 2015

Its private equity owner has sold specialty pharmacy firm Aureus Health Services to grocery company Meijer.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/05/belhealth-sells-aureus-to-meijer/
May 26 2015

Not long ago UnitedHealth paid $600 million for Alere's population health management division.  Now supposedly that group has been purchased by a startup called Persivia and will be given a precision medicine focus.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150522005019/en/Chronic-Care-Population-Health-Company-Persivia-Acquires#.VWHCXUtFoVQ
May 22 2015

A Frost & Sullivan report says the care coordination software market will grow 28% annually through 2020.

http://www.beckershospitalreview.com/healthcare-information-technology/care-coordination-it-market-poised-for-rapid-growth-3-things-to-know.html
May 22 2015

A RNCOS report says the global telemedicine market had revenues of over $18 billion in 2014 and will grow at almost 20% annually in the next five years.

http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/qn3csn/global
May 22 2015

Buyer's remorse?, er, seller's remorse?, deja vu?, who knows but PE firm Riverside Company is buying the Healthcare Safety Institute for the second time.  HSI offers workplace health and safety training.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/05/riverside-invests-in-hsi-again/
May 21 2015

xerox

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Xerox, which has a large health business through its ACS acquisition, has added some population and community health capabilities by acquiring the Healthy Communities Institute.

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