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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.

Oct 09 2015

GoodRx, which helps consumers find low prices on drugs, received an undisclosed additional investment from PE firms.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/10/spectrum-equity-and-francisco-partners-back-goodrx/
Oct 08 2015

According to Markets & Markets, the North American health information technology market will have $104 billion in revenue by 2020.

http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/north-america-healthcare-it-market-1190.html
Oct 08 2015

Hixme Insurance Solutions has hit investors up for $10.14 million as it builds its software to support employers using private exchanges to offer health coverage and other benefits.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/10/hixme-insurance-solutions-fetches-10-14-mln-series-a/
Oct 08 2015

CareSync has synced up with $18 million in fresh capital for its chronic disease management software and services.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/10/caresync-snags-18-mln-series-b/
Oct 07 2015

Binary Fountain, which offers health care firms reputation management and patient experience analytics services, has coupled with investors to raise $16 million.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/10/binary-fountain-snaps-up-16-mln/
Oct 07 2015

A Government Accounting Office Report will cheer up by reporting that at least $125 billion of your tax dollars are spent on improper payments, with much of that sum being accounted for by Medicare, Medicaid and other health programs.

http://www.gao.gov/products/GAO-16-92T
Oct 07 2015

Conglomerate Phillips is buying Blue Jay Consulting, which provides consulting for hospital ERs, to bolster its health business.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20151006/NEWS/151009955
Oct 05 2015

Telemedicine vendor TelaDoc went public, and in September it released the lockup on insiders, allowing them to sell shares, then last week it reveals that it lost a major customer and the stock falls about 20%.  Uhhh, not sure how I feel about that sequence of events.  But also shows once again the danger of buying into hyped approaches.  Telemedicine is great, but it is ultimately a commodity.

http://www.fool.com/investing/general/2015/10/03/3-tech-stocks-that-crashed-this-week.aspx?source=eogyholnk0000001&utm_source=yahoo&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=article
Oct 02 2015

The US isn't the only country bedeviled by inadequate HIT, a well-respected hospital implementing an EPIC system was found by the United Kingdom's Clinical Quality Commission to have serious problems, some of which endangered patient safety.

http://www.cqc.org.uk/sites/default/files/new_reports/AAAD0111.pdf