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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 31 2014

Lockheed Martin is buying Systems Made Simple to boost its government health information technology business.  Just what we need, the cost overrun specialists who do government defense contracting to do more expensive and unworkable government HIT>

http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/capitalbusiness/lockheed-martin-to-buy-health-care-technology-company-systems-made-simple/2014/10/30/78dee23e-6050-11e4-8b9e-2ccdac31a031_story.html
Oct 31 2014

Acadia Healthcare, a behavioral health hospital operator, is paying $1.2 billion for CRC Health Group, a chain of similar hospitals on the west coast.

http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/news-item/cio-survey-ehrs-are-still-slow-time-consuming
Oct 31 2014

A Frost & Sullivan survey of health care CIOs finds that most are still very dissatisfied with numerous aspects of EHRs.

http://www.healthcare-informatics.com/news-item/cio-survey-ehrs-are-still-slow-time-consuming
Oct 29 2014

Enlitic, which is developing software to do "deep learning" of information on imaging scans, has received a shallow $2 million in capital.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/10/sf-startup-enlitic-funding-deep-learning-f/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fe10a7e295-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-fe10a7e295-67648197
Oct 29 2014

Telemedicine software startup Bright.md has received $1 million in seed financing.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/10/bright-md-telemedicine/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=fe10a7e295-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-fe10a7e295-67648197
Oct 28 2014

Optum, the non-health plan business of UnitedHealth Group, is purchasing Alere Health, the division on Alere that provides wellness programs for employers and health plan enrollees, for a massive $600 million.  The acquisitions which led to Alere Health had been ill-timed for Alere and outside its core business and the company is fighting off a hostile takeover.
Oct 28 2014

Changes in emergency care malpractice standards in three states did not appear to affect intensity of practice or hospital admissions.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1313308
Oct 28 2014

Vitals has acquired Compass Healthcare.  Both companies are in the business of providing health care cost transparency and comparison solutions.

http://www.vitals.com/about/posts/press-center/press-releases/vitals-acquires-compass-healthcare-advisers
Oct 28 2014

Limeade, a provider of employee wellness and health engagement platforms, has scored with an additional $25 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/oak-hcft-partners-to-lead-25-mln-round-for-limeade/
Oct 27 2014

Phreesia, which offers software to assist with patient sign-in and payment collection, has raised another $30 million in capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/10/phreesia-nets-30-mln-in-llr-led-round/
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