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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.

Nov 20 2014

A survey reported in the American Journal of Managed Care finds that use of health information technology is reducing the time physicians have to see patients; for each new system a doctor uses, capacity to see new privately insured patients drops by about 14%, although no effect was reported on Medicare or Medicaid capacity.

http://www.ajmc.com/publications/issue/2014/2014-11-vol20-sp/primary-care-capacity-as-insurance-coverage-expands-examining-the-role-of-health-information-technology/1
Nov 19 2014

Tufts Center for the Study of Drug Development regularly estimates the average cost to bring a new compound to the market and currently says that cost is $2.56 billion, more than double what it was 11 years ago.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2014-11-18/cost-to-develop-a-drug-more-than-doubles-to-2-56-billion.html
Nov 19 2014

MedeAnalytics, a cloud-based or cloudy health care analytics firm, has acquired OnFocus HealthCare, which focuses on data to improve performance or performance to improve data, something like that.

http://medeanalytics.com/company/newsroom/press-releases/medeanalytics-acquires-onfocus-healthcare
Nov 19 2014

A study in the Journal of General Internal Medicine confirms that only about 30% of older Americans use the internet to find health information and that less than 10% of those who have serious health issues do so.

http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/Older-Americans-May-Miss-Out-on-Web-Health-Highway-49227-1.html
Nov 19 2014

Zipnosis, which offers online treatment of common health problems, has received a $1.5 million investment.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/digital-medicine-startup-zipnosis-raises-1-5m-seed-funding/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=bc23999fcc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-bc23999fcc-67648197
Nov 19 2014

ActualMeds is raising $5 million to support its business of helping patients with medication management following a hospital stay.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/actualmeds-raising-5m-to-roll-out-medication-management-for-chf-diabetes-patients/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=bc23999fcc-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-bc23999fcc-67648197
Nov 17 2014

League, a Canada based mobile wellness company, has raised $4 million.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/mobile-health-startup-league-raises-4m-in-seed-funding/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=317ad77dda-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-317ad77dda-67677117
Nov 15 2014

HealthEdge, a health care investment fund, has given an undisclosed amount of capital to Data Dimensions, which helps health care companies transform paper to electronic form and performs other back-office tasks.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141112006528/en/HealthEdge-Completes-Investment-Data-Dimensions#.VGdrRktFoVQ
Nov 15 2014

Kindred, the large post-acute care and rehabilitation company, is acquiring Centerre, which has 11 rehab centers, for $195 million.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20141112/NEWS/311129947?utm_source=AltURL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mpdaily
Nov 15 2014

LexisNexis, the large publishing and software firm, is acquiring Health Market Science, which provides a variety of data regarding the practices of health care providers.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20141113/NEWS/311139944?utm_source=link-20141113-NEWS-311139944&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
Nov 15 2014

Xerox, which through its ACS acquisition has a significant business in health plan outsourcing services, has invested in HealthSpot, a maker of telemedicine kiosks.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/xerox-makes-big-push-telemedicine-healthspot-strategic-partnership/
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