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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 07 2015

SocialWellth has raised $7.5 million to expand its mobile health app stores, and has agreed to trade its extra "l" for an "a".  Here's to your hellth.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/03/social-wellth-raises-7-5-million/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=8a86afc1c5-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-8a86afc1c5-67677117
Mar 06 2015

Healogics, which operates wound care centers, has acquired Accelecare, which is in the same business.

http://www.streetinsider.com/Press+Releases/Healogics,+Inc.+Completes+Acquisition+of+Accelecare+Wound+Centers,+Inc./10330782.html
Mar 06 2015

Oak Street Health, which operates primary care clinics for Medicare beneficiaries, has raised an undisclosed amount of additional capital.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/03/harbour-point-capital-and-qsp-invests-in-oak-street-health/
Mar 05 2015

Ahem, fun coming here.  A company called Daqri, which apparently had a few of those to drink, and whose primary business is making an "augmented reality helmet", has acquired another company called Melon, which makes a "smart headband" that takes various biometric measures.  That's using the ole Melon, or not.  Better wear that helmet, wouldn't want to damage the melons coming up with these ideas.

http://www.latimes.com/business/technology/la-fi-tn-daqri-melon-20150219-story.html
Mar 05 2015

CompuGroup Medical, a Germany-based global provider software company, has acquired Medical EDI to bolster its offerings in South Africa.

http://www.cgm.com/corp/presse/presseinformationen/Presse.en.jsp
Mar 05 2015

Navigant, the health care revenue cycle management company, has acquired RevenueMed, which provides coding and similar services.

http://www.navigant.com/insights/library/industry-news/navigant-acquires-revenuemed.aspx/
Mar 05 2015

Sharecare, a mobile wellness and engagement platform, has cared to share that it has acquired Feingold Technologies, which voice and text messages to understand behavior.

http://mobihealthnews.com/40867/sharecare-acquires-voice-text-analysis-company-feingold-technologies/
Mar 04 2015

Truven Health Analytics is apparently filing for an IPO that could value the health data and analytics company at as much as $3 billion.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/03/truven-health-analytics-prepares-for-ipo-say-sources-reuters/
Mar 03 2015

Cardinal Health is buying Johnson & Johnson's trouble interventional cardiology business, Cordis, for almost $2 billion.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150302/NEWS/150309997
Mar 03 2015

Acadia Healthcare, a large publicly traded behavioral health provider, is buying seven treatment centers run by Quality Addiction Management in Wisconsin for $53 million.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150302/NEWS/150309991