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Most people take a medication trusting that it has been studied and approved by an official organization to be effective and safe for everyone. However, for many minority groups, that trust is not a given.

According to Kwaku Owusu, chairman of MATTER startup, Ilerasoft, and founder of Drugviu — an online platform that helps minority populations find medications that will actually work for them…

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CEO Steven Collens shares his thoughts on what the healthcare system will look like 20 years from now. This article was originally published in MedCity News.

One day, a doctor will reach out to you before you even know you’re sick.

That’s the future we see coming to life in the technologies emerging from the healthcare innovation community.

One of the most interesting dynamics we see at MATT…

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Most healthcare startups share a common goal: to improve lives. Whether through a new drug, medical device or digital health platform, most healthcare companies are focused on helping individuals live better and longer.

However, living better doesn’t always mean living longer. Like all healthcare companies, MATTER startup Vynca shares the goal of improving lives, but their focus is on a part o…

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With the evolution of technology, health data has advanced far beyond the individual, static data point of the past. But while this advancement promises to improve human health, it also raises big questions: Who owns the data, who controls it and how do we connect it to deliver value to patients?

On February 5, Rowan Chapman, head of J&J Innovation, California, joined us at MATTER for a fi…

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Are healthcare professionals and organizations actually solving the problems they’re paid to solve? Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, executive vice president and chief clinical officer for Providence Health and Services, doesn’t think so — and she shared big ideas on how to change that from the MATTER stage.

Amy observed that the healthcare industry has become “flabby,” with health systems so preoccu…

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