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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.

Apr 17 2014

Orange Health Solutions has acquired MZI Healthcare, which makes revenue cycle and other software for hospitals and other providers.

http://jacksonville.com/business/2014-04-16/story/jacksonville-based-orange-health-solutions-acquires-software-firm-mzi
Apr 17 2014

British firm Zesty has received a $2 million investment to help roll out its online health care appointment booking app in the United Kingdom.

http://www.geektime.com/2014/04/13/u-k-healthcare-startup-zesty-gets-2m-to-strengthen-its-online-booking-service/
Apr 17 2014

drchrono has received a $2.9 million investment to continue development of its iPad/iPhone EHR app.

http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/drchrono-receives-investment-from-box-204672401.html
Apr 17 2014

One Medical has raised an additional $40 million to support its business of providing primary care services.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/04/one-medical-raises-a-healthy-40-mln-in-growth-funding/
Apr 17 2014

Symphony Technology Group, a health care focused private equity firm, is acquiring MDdatacor, a vendor of data collection and analytics products, and intends to combine it with other assets to form the Symphony Health Solutions business.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/04/symphony-technology-group-acquires-mddatacor/
Apr 17 2014

A study conducted in Canada and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine finds that as many as 31% of all written prescriptions are never filled, with cost, type of drug, age of the patient and regularity of visits to the same physician appearing to be associated with the rate of abandonment.

http://annals.org/article.aspx?articleid=1852865&utm_source=H2RMinutes+PCMH-ACO+Apr.+15%2C+2014&utm_campaign=PCMH-ACO+mins+4%2F15%2F14&utm_medium=email
Apr 16 2014

A study published in JAMA Internal Medicine finds that meeting meaningful use requirements in regard to seven performance measures for chronic disease care is only slightly associated with improvement on two performance measures, with worse performance on two and no difference in performance on three.

https://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=1860495
Apr 16 2014

eCaring has raised $3.5 million for its product to use remote monitoring to help keep seniors in their homes rather than being institutionalized.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/04/ecaring-raises-3-5-million-for-monitoring-program-to-support-aging-in-place/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=d1fd0d6cea-RSS_EMAIL_CAMPAIGN&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-d1fd0d6cea-67648197
Apr 15 2014

Swedish firm Lifesum has received $6.7 million to take its weight loss app global.

http://www.businessweek.com/news/2014-04-14/bauer-media-sparklabs-invest-in-swedish-digital-app-lifesum
Apr 15 2014

Truven Health Analytics has acquired Simpler Consulting to bolster its capability to help health care organizations reshape themselves and use the data that Truven provides.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/04/pe-backed-truven-health-analytics-acquires-simpler-consulting/
Apr 15 2014

The Mercom Capital regular report on health care information technology financings and transactions shows that over $850 million was invested in the first quarter of 2014.

http://store.mercom.mercomcapital.com/products-page/healthcare-it-reports/hit-q12014-funding-report/
Apr 14 2014

A survey of hospital administrators by Jackson Healthcare reveals that over half think most doctors practice defensive medicine, that defensive medicine has a substantial effect on costs, with an uncertain effect on quality.

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-04/cumc-lnt041114.php