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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.

Mar 30 2015

Surgery Partners, an operator of ambulatory surgery centers, is planning for an IPO that might value the company at as much as $2 billion.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/03/surgery-partners-preparing-for-summer-ipo-hires-banks-reuters/
Mar 30 2015

Fred's, which operates a large chain of discount stores, is acquiring specialty pharmacy firm EntrustRx for about $66 billion, no discount there.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20150325005804/en/Freds-Acquire-EntrustRx-Specialty-Pharmacy#.VRl0tktFoVQ
Mar 30 2015

UnitedHealth Group is purchasing Catamaran, the pharmacy benefit management firm, for an astounding $12.8 billion.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/unitedhealth-bulks-prescription-drug-cost-152847037.html
Mar 27 2015

Constellation Healthcare Technologies, which provides physician revenue cycle management software, has bought Physicians Practice Plus for up to $20 million.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/17/idUSASN0006ZM20150317
Mar 27 2015

Fagron has sold its Corilus division, which provides software in Europe to help providers manage their practices, to AAC Capital.

http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/03/16/idUSnHUG1ZlcRP+1d3+ONE20150316
Mar 27 2015

Procura, which offers cloud-based post-acute care software, has procured Indura Software, which sells home health care applications.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2015/03/prweb12578025.htm
Mar 27 2015

In an announcement made to an audience pregnant with expectation, Clue has raised $680,000 for its fertility application.  I guess the investors weren't clueless.

http://mobihealthnews.com/30043/fertility-tracking-app-clue-raises-680k-to-grow-team-build-hardware/
Mar 27 2015

Healthentic has raised $3.75 million to aid in sales of their software to help employers indentify health savings opportunities.

http://www.geekwire.com/2015/healthentic-raises-almost-4m-to-boost-healthcare-analytics/
Mar 27 2015

Canadian telecommunications firm is expanding its health software offerings by purchasing MedeSync, an EHR vendor.

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/telus-health-acquires-medesync-electronic-090000595.html
Mar 27 2015

Joyable has happily grabbed $2.1 million for its app to help reduce social anxiety.  No reason for investors to be worried about their returns.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/03/joyable-grabs-2-1-mln-seed/
Mar 27 2015

Investors have routed $7 million to PatientRoute Systems, which helps hospitals use predictive analytics to improve operations.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/03/serial-entrepreneur-raises-7m-double-size-predictive-analytics-business-improve-surgical-capacity-planning/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fb517a4d35-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-fb517a4d35-67648197
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