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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.

Jan 07 2015

I am happy I am a luddite and invest my money in things like the lottery that have a better return possibility than other things I read about.  Bam Labs, for example, just got another $3.5 million for its bed that monitors sleep.

http://mobihealthnews.com/39278/bam-labs-gets-3-5m-for-clinical-and-consumer-sleep-monitoring/
Jan 07 2015

Ginger.io, another behavioral health analytics company, raised $20 million in capital from investors who aren't stepping too gingerly and are hoping the company can get out of the red.

http://techcrunch.com/2014/12/23/ginger-io-adds-20-million-in-funding/
Jan 07 2015

$18 million has been poured into Apervita, which is creating an "app" store whereby health care providers can share software they have developed for various purposes.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20150107/INFO/301079991&utm_source=link-20150107-INFO-301079991&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
Jan 07 2015

GI Partners, an institutional investor, has acquired Logibec, a large Canadian vendor of health information technology software.

http://www.gipartners.com/news/gi-partners-to-acquire-logibec
Jan 06 2015

Constellation Software has acquired CareTracker, a physician practice management software company which was owned by the Optum subsidiary of UnitedHealth Group.

http://www.csisoftware.com/2014/12/constellation-acquires-caretracker-inc/
Jan 06 2015

AxelaCare, a provider of home infusion services, acquired Ambient Healthcare, which offers similar services in the southeast.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/01/pe-backed-axelacare-acquires-ambient-healthcare/
Jan 06 2015

Several investors provided an undisclosed amount of additional capital to Inflexxion, a vendor of behavior change programs.

https://www.pehub.com/2015/01/periscope-equity-fidus-investment-akoya-invest-in-inflexxion/
Jan 06 2015

iData Research says that the patient monitoring portion of the telemedicine market will grow to $5 billion in revenue by 2020.

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/double-digit-growth-projected-in-the-us-telehealth-market-by-2020-led-by-bosch-healthcare-honeywell-and-medtronic-2014-12-29
Jan 06 2015

Noom has picked up $15 million, some of which will hopefully be used to search for a new name.  The company provides virtual coaches for consumers.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/01/ny-digital-health-accelerator-grad-noom-raises-15m-rd/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f8c2104f0b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-f8c2104f0b-67677117
Jan 06 2015

Well I'll be, Wellbe is raising $2.4 million to expand its service to help patients stick to care plans to areas other than orthopedics.

http://medcitynews.com/2015/01/patient-navigation-software-developer-wellbe-raises-2-4m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=f8c2104f0b-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-f8c2104f0b-67677117
Jan 05 2015

Innovalon, a data and analytics vendor for health care firms, filed for an IPO to raise as much as $500 million, an indication that 2015 valuations may be as absurd as 2014's were.

https://www.pehub.com/2014/12/analytics-based-u-s-tech-firm-inovalon-files-for-ipo-reuters/
Jan 02 2015

The FDA approved a significant number of new compounds in 2014, with the 41 novel medicines being second only to 1996's number.  The bad news is that many of these drugs are specialty medications with very high price tags.

http://in.reuters.com/article/2015/01/01/pharmaceuticals-approvals-idINL6N0UE2C120150101