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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.

May 12 2014

Magellan Rx Management has issued its fourth annual Medical Pharmacy Trend Report, which focuses on drugs paid under the medical benefit side of a health plan and finds continuing double-digit growth and the spread of various management techniques.

http://ir.magellanhealth.com/releasedetail.cfm?ReleaseID=846118
May 08 2014

Onward Behavioral Health, which is owned by a PE firm, has been sold to Pyramid Healthcare, also owned by a PE firm and also in the behavioral health business.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/05/hpef-ii-sells-onward-behavioral-health/
May 08 2014

Google Ventures is leading a$130 million investment into Flatiron Health, an oncology data company, which will use the funding in part to acquire Altos Solutions, a provider of oncology EMRs.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/05/google-ventures-leads-flatiron-health-investment/
May 08 2014

IMS has issued a report on cancer care, focussing on drugs.  A very timely report considering issues regarding the costs of the multiple new drugs for various cancers and their high cost.

http://www.imshealth.com/portal/site/imshealth/menuitem.0be132395225d98ee566e5661ad8c22a/?vgnextoid=a64de5fda6370410VgnVCM10000076192ca2RCRD&vgnextfmt=default
May 08 2014

Working with the Mt. Sinai School of Medicine, LifeMap Sciences, a subsidiary of BioTime, a regenerative medicine company, has committed $5 million to a new venture called LifeMap Solutions, which will help patients collect and integrate genetic and other data into their health records.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/05/develop-mobile-health-solutions-mount-sinai/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=c1d24b0964-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-c1d24b0964-67648197
May 08 2014

EOS Health, which is at the dawn of its trajectory, has raised $8.2 million to expand its (now say it all together) mobile software platform to help people manage their health and health care better, initially in the diabetes space.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/05/mobile-diabetes-management-business-eoshealth-raises-8-2m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=c1d24b0964-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-c1d24b0964-67648197
May 08 2014

Iagnosis, which conducts tele dermatology, has received $2.9 million in additional investment to expand its business.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/05/dermatologists-virtual-visit-startup-secures-2-9m-expand-states/
May 07 2014

A draft report from a panel established by the National Quality Forum finds that current performance measures penalize providers which serve large numbers of low-income patients for factors beyond the providers control.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/28/us/politics/health-laws-pay-policy-is-skewed-panel-finds.html?&_r=1&utm_source=H2RMinutes+PCMH-ACO+May+6%2C+2014&utm_campaign=PCMH-ACO+mins+5%2F6%2F14&utm_medium=email
May 07 2014

According to Markets and Markets the healthcare information exchange market will be worth over one billion dollars next year.

http://www.marketsandmarkets.com/Market-Reports/healthcare-edi-market-130571438.html
May 07 2014

In 2019 the mobile monitoring and diagnostics segment will have sales of over $8 billion, according to Transparency Market Research.

http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/mHealth-monitoring-diagnostic-medical-devices.html
May 07 2014

Prospira PainCare has acquired the Advanced International Pain Clinic.  Both companies are in the business of operating centers to treat chronic pain.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/05/pe-backed-prospira-paincare-acquires-advanced-interventional-pain-clinic/
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