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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 14 2014

A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine finds that using a formal care handoff process to share information between a patient's clinicians reduced medical errors in hospitals.

http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1405556
Nov 13 2014

CareSync has gotten investors to sink $4.25 million into its "consumer-centric" care coordination (fill in buzz word here) business.

http://www.tullisfunds.com/news/caresync-closes-4-25-million-series-a-financing-to-accelerate-expansion-and-innovation
Nov 13 2014

PRA Health Sciences, another contract research organization, has also filed for a public offering, looking to raise as much as $375 million.

http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/09/09/4135916_raleigh-based-pra-files-plans.html?rh=1
Nov 13 2014

Seniorlink, which has staffing and technology to care for people in their homes, has acquired Vayu Technologies, a tele-care platform.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/10/prweb12259913.htm
Nov 12 2014

Clearview Logix, a health analytics application developer, has acquired Evenspring's health care division.

http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20141015005326/en#.VFzjEb64lz8
Nov 12 2014

$7.5 million has been added to HealthCare.com's coffers to support its health insurance search and comparison software.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/11/healthcare-com-racks-up-7-5-mln-series-a/
Nov 12 2014

Specialty EMR vendor Modernizing Medicine attains a new $15 million investment, partly to be used for developing telemedicine capabilities.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/cloud-based-specialty-emr-developer-modernizing-medicine-raises-15m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=18cfdbe05c-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-18cfdbe05c-67648197
Nov 11 2014

Sentrian has elicited a $12 investment in software designed to improve remote health monitoring by screening out false positives.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/11/in-move-to-reduce-false-positives-in-remote-patient-monitoring-health-it-company-raises-12m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=61427627d9-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-61427627d9-67648197
Nov 11 2014

Almond Systems received a nutty $9 million in capital for its digital tools to help people eat healthier.

http://mobihealthnews.com/37386/almond-systems-raises-9m-to-develop-digital-tools-that-help-people-eat-healthier/
Nov 11 2014

2015 CMS Hospital Outpatient Rule

http://www.gpo.gov/fdsys/pkg/FR-2014-11-10/pdf/2014-26146.pdf
Nov 11 2014

MDLive, which offers telehealth visits, has acquired Breakthrough Behavioral, which offers video consulting.

http://www.healthdatamanagement.com/news/Telehealth-Vendor-Targets-Behavioral-Health-49208-1.html?utm_campaign=daily-nov%2011%202014&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&ET=healthdatamanagement%3Ae3323954%3A3722900a%3A&st=email