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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.

Jul 09 2014

Validic, which is building a business around collecting data from wearables, medical devices and other sources, has acquired Infometers, which is in a similar business.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/07/health-data-aggregator-validic-goes-bicoastal-with-infometers-acquisition/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=ed5f3322f3-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-ed5f3322f3-67648197
Jul 09 2014

UnitedHealth Group released results of a study in which oncology practices were paid a flat sum for treatment of cancer.  While performance on quality of care measures remained the same, total medical costs declined 34%, even though there was greater cost for chemotherapy drugs.

http://www.uhc.com/news_room/2014_news_release_archive/cancer_care_payment_model.htm
Jul 07 2014

Accenture has received a $162 million contract to "modernize" the VA's EHR, Vista.

http://newsroom.accenture.com/news/veterans-affairs-chooses-asm-research-to-modernize-electronic-health-records.htm
Jul 07 2014

According to new research from KLAS only Epic, Cerner and Meditech were the only EHR vendors gaining market share in 2013.

http://www.klasresearch.com/News/PressRoom/2014/CMS%202014
Jul 07 2014

Acadia, a large provider of inpatient behavioral health services, has acquired UK-based Partnerships  in Care for $662 million.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/07/pe-backed-acadia-completes-pic-acquisition-for-about-662-mln/
Jul 07 2014

BeneStream, which helps employers get low-income workers into Medicaid to satisfy the ACA requirements, raised $1.58 million.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/07/benestream-attracts-1-58-mln/
Jul 02 2014

The HHS Office of Inspector General found a high rate of data "inconsistencies" in federal exchange enrollments, over 2.9 million, most related to citizenship or eligibility, and that almost all of these, 2.6 million could not be resolved.  Similar problems appear to exist on the state exchanges.

https://oig.hhs.gov/oei/reports/oei-01-14-00180.pdf
Jul 02 2014

Research in the journal Arthritis and Rheumatology finds that about a third of total knee replacement procedures were inappropriate or unnecessary, at a very large cost to the system and significant risks to the patients undergoing these procedures.

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/art.38685/abstract;jsessionid=D378996C77F62009CC1D8E02ABBF5731.f02t03
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