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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.

Apr 15 2015

Advanced Practice Strategies garnered $12 million in new investments to practice advancing its strategy of offering an e-learning and talent management platform for providers.

http://www.aps-web.com/news/advanced-practice-strategies-inc-completes-12m-series-c-financing
Apr 15 2015

Quality Systems, an EHR and revenue cycle management firm, has acquired Gennius Systems, which offers data analytics, for an undisclosed price.  Obviously these genniuses can't spell.

http://investor.qsii.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=905585
Apr 15 2015

Honor Technology has captured a $20 million investment to match seniors with providers of in-home care, calling itself the Uber of senior care.  I'm unterwhelmed.

http://recode.net/2015/04/02/andreessen-horowitz-leads-20-million-round-for-honor-to-take-care-of-seniors/
Apr 15 2015

A survey from the Harris organization, sponsored by Ricoh, suggests that patients appreciate providers who minimize paperwork and avoid doing it during patient visits.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/with-hospitals-drowning-in-paperwork-patients-look-to-internet-for-treatment-300064681.html
Apr 15 2015

Arcadia Healthcare Solutions solved an important need by getting $13 million in new capital to support its EHR-related consulting business and data analytics services.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/04/arcadia-nets-13-mln/
Apr 15 2015

After years of procrastinating, Congress has enacted a permanent change to physician reimbursement under Medicare, but the law contains a number of other interesting provisions, the most significant of which may turn out to be mandating copays on MedSupp policies.

http://kaiserhealthnews.org/news/faq-could-congress-be-ready-to-fix-medicare-pay-for-doctors-2/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=17093966&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-86G-f70VeaMEtrKi30CNYYc19R5XHQbt9fK8Wijv5sA226KLMz5dIkkJrFUdAAkgP2AMoydZqxaN5Kq-ZjMEK-nr5-cA&_hsmi=17093966
Apr 14 2015

IBM has also acquired health data analytics firm and Cleveland Clinic spinoff Explorys to bolster the Watson Health unit.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/ibm-acquires-explorys-to-accelerate-cognitive-insights-for-health-and-wellness-300065024.html
Apr 14 2015

IBM is acquiring Phytel, which makes population health management software, and will combine it into the Watson Health business unit.

http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/46584.wss
Apr 14 2015

KPMG has purchased Beacon Health Partners, a management consulting firm working mostly with providers.

http://www.wsj.com/articles/kpmg-to-buy-health-care-consultant-beacon-partners-1428843601
Apr 14 2015

Striking a blow for, for, for...er, we aren't sure what, other than protectionism, the Texas Board of Medicine has limited the ability of patients to access care through telemedicine.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150411/NEWS/150419985?utm_source=modernhealthcare&utm_medium=email&utm_content=externalURL&utm_campaign=hits
Apr 14 2015

A research paper from UHC, the consortium of academic medical centers, finds that physician preference items, such as cardiac or orthopedic devices, are often used without regard to their actual quality or cost outcomes.  Customizing devices, waste and devices mismatched to patient characteristics were significant contributors to the problem.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/uhc-study-variations-in-use-of-physician-preference-items-affect-patient-outcomes-and-costs-300058774.html
Apr 13 2015

Accenture estimates that private insurance exchange membership doubled in 2015, to 6 million people, and will grow to 40 million in 2018.

http://www.accenture.com/us-en/Pages/insight-private-health-insurance-exchange-annual-enrollment.aspx
Apr 13 2015

A new study in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that functional impairment is linked to risk of more hospital readmissions among Medicare beneficiaries, but the current penalty program fails to take these very common circumstances into account.

http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleID=2107610&utm_source=Silverchair%20Information%20Systems&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=ArchivesofInternalMedicine%3ANewIssue04%2F07%2F2015&utm_campaign=KHN%3A+Daily+Health+Policy+Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=17012651&_hsenc=p2ANqtz--86WArNUdcrUhK-q4IWxS8YUjNyYBua4BCp2kw--BYk2acxU_784_YgBDfD-0OR6kpCjIcrw1k1_k347HiXiim2CJfsw&_hsmi=17012651
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