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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 30 2014

Privacy analytics has received an additional $3.5 million in financing to advance its business of helping providers anonymize data to comply with privacy regulations.

http://venturebeat.com/2014/07/22/privacy-analytics-raises-3-5m-for-health-data-anonymization/
Jul 30 2014

Azeala Health, which provides cloud-based software for health systems, has merged with simplifyMD, a vendor of EHRs.

http://www.azaleahealth.com/azalea-health-announces-merger-simplifymd/
Jul 30 2014

A Viewpoint in JAMA summarizes e-visit companies and explores issues associated with their use that might affect quality.

http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1853167
Jul 30 2014

Mednet Solutions, a provider of clinical trial management and electronic data capture software, has received a $4 million investment to grow its business.

http://www.mednetstudy.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/2014-July-Arrowroot-Investment-in-MedNet-Solutions_FINAL.pdf
Jul 30 2014

Proteus, the maker of the "wired" pill that tracks compliance by reporting if it has been digested, has digested another  $172 million of financing.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140729/NEWS/307299945?AllowView=VDl3UXk1TytDUDJCbkJiYkY0M3hlMFNyaGtVZER1TT0=&utm_source=link-20140729-NEWS-307299945&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=hits&utm_name=top
Jul 30 2014

According to a Black Book survey, hospitals are greatly increasing their use of coding and documentation vendors.

http://www.fiercehealthit.com/press-releases/clinical-documentation-improvement-heats-half-us-hospitals-expect-be-prepar?utm_medium=nl&utm_source=internal
Jul 29 2014

Now here is a spooky one--Emulate makes "organs on a chip" to help drug companies analyze and understand living tissue reactions to experimental compounds and has raised $12 million for that business.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/07/emulate-secures-12-mln-series-a/
Jul 29 2014

Another company, PhysIQ, offering health care predictive analytics has raised $4.6 million in funding.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/07/lionbird-leads-series-a-round-for-physiq/
Jul 29 2014

VisionGain is projecting that the mobile health market will have $6.7 billion in revenue by the end of 2014.

http://www.slideshare.net/Visiongain/mobile-healthcare-mhealth-market-forecast-2014-2024
Jul 29 2014

Kurbo Health has raised $5.8 million for its mobile products to help children eat healthy and deal with weight issues.  Just what children need, another app to sit and look at instead of really being "mobile" and getting some exercise.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/07/kurbo-health-raises-5-8mln-series-a-led-by-signia/
Jul 25 2014

A Modern Healthcare survey finds that physician pay in 23 specialties changed little from 2013 to 2014.  Only five specialties had increases that exceeded inflation growth, including oncologists and Ob/Gyns.  A number of specialists have average compensation exceeding $300,000 and several are over $400,000, with orthopedic surgeons topping out at an average $523,000.  Can't feel too sorry for them.

http://www.modernhealthcare.com/article/20140719/MAGAZINE/307199981&utm_source=AltURL&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=mpdaily?AllowView=VXQ0UnpwZTVEZldYL1I3TkErT1lBajNja0U4VURlZFVFQk1JQlE9PQ==