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Member insights: Actual quality is the best measure of quality

April 9, 2025

The true measure of medical device quality lies in safety and effectiveness

Randy Horton, Chief Solutions Officer at Orthogonal, and Ian Sutcliffe, Principal SA HCLS Compliance and Medical Devices at Amazon Web Services, co-authored this article.

For a deeper dive into this topic, read the full article here.

Bridging the divide between software and med tech The med tech industry faces challe…

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Winter 2024-25: Meet the newest members of the MATTER startup community

January 30, 2025

Over the last few months, 29 startups became part of the MATTER community as Select members. Our new members span different areas of healthcare, from digital health to medical devices and more.

If you’re interested in joining the MATTER community, you can learn more about our membership options here. You can also view our innovation challenges here.

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MATTER Startup Shoutouts: Q4 2024

January 16, 2025

Every quarter, we recognize startups from the MATTER community and their accomplishments as they build new solutions that are accelerating innovation, advancing care and improving lives. Some highlights include:

Nine startups secured more than $40 million in funding from venture capital and grants. Ten startups created impactful partnerships with leading industry organizations like the C…

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Startup Spotlight: Lura Health

November 26, 2024

How Lura Health is revolutionizing health monitoring with non-invasive, saliva-based wearables.

Lura Health is pioneering a new era of chronic disease monitoring with medical-grade, non-invasive wearables, which monitor biomarkers in saliva instead of blood. Through their salivary sensing platform, Lura Health provides a non-invasive, pain-free alternative to traditional blood or ISF (intersti…

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Fall 2024: Meet the newest members of the MATTER startup community

October 24, 2024

Recently, 28 startups became part of the MATTER community as Select members. Our new members span different areas of healthcare, from maternal health to medical devices to artificial intelligence (AI) and more.

If you’re interested in joining the MATTER community, you can learn more about our membership options here. You can also view our innovation challenges here.

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