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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.

Sep 11 2015

According to a Markets & Markets report the population health management market will be worth over $40 billion in annual revenue by 2018.  I have no idea what anyone means by that term and 99% of the people who use it don't know what they mean by it either, but $40 billion is certainly a lot more than the amount of cost savings produced by PHM.

http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/population-health-management-market-263411936.html
Sep 11 2015

GetWellNetwork is helping someone else's shareholders get well by buying Skylight Healthcare Systems.  Both companies are in the patient communication in the hospital business.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/09/getwellnetwork-buys-skylight/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=1f166ce3b7-MCN+Daily+Email&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_5092836c41-1f166ce3b7-408793005
Sep 10 2015

Disruptive-model health plan Oscar Health, which has raised a huge amount of capital at a ludicrous valuation, is having trouble finding customers, but remains optimistic, according to a Bloomberg story.  Uhhh, this isn't a business where a fly-by-nite business model is going to get anywhere.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-09-03/for-health-insurance-startup-oscar-cute-ads-only-go-so-far
Sep 10 2015

According to a survey by several physician organizations, doctors have become much less satisfied with their EHRs than they were a few years ago.

http://healthleadersmedia.com/content/TEC-320466/EHR-Satisfaction-Sinks-Among-Providers
Sep 09 2015

The American Medical Association has shockingly discovered that the proposed health plan mega-mergers would hurt competition in many markets!!  They are probably right, wish they would look at physician and hospital mergers the same way.

https://commerce.ama-assn.org/store/catalog/productDetail.jsp?product_id=prod2680007&navAction=push
Sep 09 2015

Epic Health is snacking on Option 1 Health, an enteral nutrition provider, to add to its portfolio of pediatric services and adult home care offerings.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/epic-health-buys-option-1-healthcare/
Sep 09 2015

Envision Pharma, which provides strategic communications services to the life sciences industry, is acquiring Alligent Biopharm Consulting, which helps the same industry develop medical affairs communications.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/envision-pharma-buys-alligent-biopharm-consulting/
Sep 08 2015

A report by the agency responsible for overseeing construction of VA health facilities finds rampant mismanagement and cost overruns, with the most glaring example being a Colorado medical center expected to cost triple the original projections, and it still isn't completed.  Still think government is good at this stuff?

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/report-faults-va-management-denver-hospital-failures-33521448
Sep 08 2015

Canadian long-term care software provider PointClickCare has preparedwrittenfiled for a US IPO.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/09/jmi-equity-backed-pointclickcare-files-for-ipo/
Sep 08 2015

Cardiopulmonary Corp., which calls itself a "connected health" company, is connecting with Nuvon to create a merged entity focused on patient monitoring, clinical intelligence, etc.

http://www.massdevice.com/cardiopulmonary-corp-to-merge-with-nuvon/
Sep 04 2015

Medicaid health plan Molina is buying two behavioral health businesses from Providence health system.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150903005803/en/#.VeiVNUs4Ebo