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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 14 2014

Glooko, which offers a mobile diabetes management tool, has raised $7 million.

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2014/01/prweb11470422.htm
Jan 13 2014

HealthSparq, a health care price transparency company which is owned by health plan company Cambia, has acquired ClarusHealth, which offers provider search capabilities.

http://www.healthsparq.com/about-healthsparq/press-releases/healthsparq-acquires-clarushealth-to-become-a-market-leader-in-quickly-growing-healthcare-transparency-industry/
Jan 13 2014

According to a report from Transparency Research the market for home self-care devices, like glucose monitors, will reach $16.8 billion by 2019.

http://www.transparencymarketresearch.com/self-care-medical-devices.html
Jan 13 2014

WellDoc has received $20 million in funds to expand its Type 2 diabetes mobile offering, with Merck Ventures being one investor.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/01/merck-innovation-fund-invests-welldoc-part-20m-financing-round/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=65e74625b0-RSS_Daily+Top+Stories&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-65e74625b0-67648197
Jan 13 2014

Q-Centrix, which offers data analytic services to hospital quality departments, is being acquired by private equity firm Sterling Partners.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/01/sterling-partners-buys-q-centrix/
Jan 11 2014

Warburg Pincus is investing $40 million in ComplexCare Solutions, which provides care management and other services for Medicare beneficiaries.

http://www.abc27.com/story/24405170/warburg-pincus-invests-40-million-in-complexcare-solutions-to-fund-growth
Jan 11 2014

Maryland, which already has an all-payer hospital rate-setting regime, has gotten permission from HHS and agreement from state hospitals to limit increases in hospital spending to no more than the rate of economic growth in the state.

http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Stories/2014/January/10/maryland-hospitals-radical-plan-limit-spending-change-payment.aspx?utm_campaign=KHN%253A%2520Daily%2520Health%2520Policy%2520Report&utm_source=hs_email&utm_medium=email&utm_content=11610717&_hsenc=p2ANqtz-9SEG6pdPW8qVK7FcqAlMvBEgSMwwLuarGWWBsuw6ag8NN2b4FQyth_m4OtBfUXa48rvR84femOmzMqRNCbwEEp26S7aQ&_hsmi=11610717
Jan 09 2014

MedHOK has received a mammoth $77.5 million investment from Bain Capital and others to continue growth of its care management platform.

http://www.pehub.com/2014/01/bain-capital-ventures-and-spectrum-equity-back-medhok/
Jan 08 2014

Omicia, which develops software to make sense of masses of genomic data, has raised $6.8 million.

http://medcitynews.com/2014/01/omicia-hopes-boil-genomic-big-data-useful-information-raises-6-8m/?utm_source=MedCity+News+Subscribers&utm_campaign=518d35689e-RSS_Daily+Top+Stories&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_c05cce483a-518d35689e-67648197
Jan 08 2014

Lumiata, a startup aimed at collecting health data for provider use in predicting health issues and treatments has raised $4 million from Khosla Ventures.

http://medcitynews.us5.list-manage1.com/track/click?u=ba61994f8a7da5ab4c4bc02bf&id=e205bc2765&e=053c6947d0
Jan 08 2014

Zephyr Health, which provides "big data" collection and analytics for life sciences companies has raised $15 million to continue growing its business.

http://www.finsmes.com/2014/01/zephyr-health-raises-15m-funding.html