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How healthcare leaders can build AI confidence and culture

October 2, 2025

Healthcare organizations are navigating a crowded and confusing AI landscape. Recent reports show 95 percent of corporate AI pilots fail, and many executives see little return. Yet pioneers like Kaiser Permanente are showing what’s possible with careful governance and system-wide strategy.

We sat down with Justin Massa, founder of Remix Partners and AI expert, to talk about what leaders should…

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Partner Insights with VSP Vision: Lens Into the Future: Unveiling the Next Wave of Healthcare Innovation

March 6, 2025

The VSP Global Innovation Center (GIC), the innovation arm for vision care leader VSP Vision™, and MATTER are teaming up to offer a “Lens Into the Future,” a four-part virtual series showcasing next-gen trends and technologies driving healthcare forward.

The series will kick off on April 22 with an event on health diagnostics, featuring industry experts, executives and founders on the breakthr…

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Thrive together: How a MATTER membership fuels startup innovation

June 11, 2024

Last week, MATTER hosted a virtual info session delving into MATTER’s Select and Flex memberships, programmatic offerings for each membership — such as our Digital Curriculum and Expert Clinic — and more.

MATTER supports healthcare startups at all stages of growth by providing access to learning and development opportunities, capital, customers and a dynamic community. With over 1,000 startups…

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Empowering diversity: Key lessons from Black and Latino-owned startups

April 30, 2024

Recently, MATTER convened with leaders from InHuevation, The National Association of Latino Healthcare Executives and The National Association of Health Services Executives for a conversation on how digital health and technology impact health equity in the Chicago innovation ecosystem and beyond.

Following opening remarks from Gyasi Chisley, PMP, FACHE, managing director and head of corporate …

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Healthcare's hidden link: How innovation is bridging the medical-dental divide

April 29, 2024

MATTER welcomed a panel of industry-leading experts who made the case for connecting chronic care with oral health and discussed how we can reduce health disparities through oral health.

Despite growing evidence linking oral health to overall well-being, only 37 percent of Americans saw both a physician and a dentist in the same year. In hopes of advancing solutions supporting more equitable o…

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