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MATTER’s newest member companies are developing novel therapeutics for lung diseases, creating better ways for seniors to find housing, and using digital health technologies and machine learning to meet the needs of patients and researchers. They’ve joined our community of healthcare innovators to improve life and lives. They also know a thing or two about ultimate frisbee, funk rock, and world…
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This is Mike Abbadessa, senior director of medical affairs at Takeda Pharmaceuticals.
And this is Jason Smith, technology executive and computer scientist turned healthcare entrepreneur. He and Dr. Lev Becker founded the startup, rMark Bio, in 2015.
The Problem
In early 2015, Mike’s team at Takeda was looking to identify Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs) by identifying patterns in practice. KOL…
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It’s been a busy few weeks since MATTER opened its doors to the healthcare tech community in mid-February. Members are getting to know each other, collaborating, participating in events and networking with the broader healthcare community. And, interest in MATTER continues on all fronts including through applications for membership from inspiring new entrepreneurial businesses in healthcare. Be…
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The platform uses artificial intelligence to recommend key opinion leaders that align with users’ strategic business interests.
Academic and clinical partnerships are critical for pharmaceutical companies developing new products. It’s not hard to identify the handful of top opinion leaders in any given therapeutic area, but, until now, finding the bulk of the physicians and scientists workin…
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A scale and a smartphone are all it takes.
More than 70 percent of Americans are overweight, according to the CDC, and almost everyone who is overweight expresses a desire to lose weight. Yet few achieve their goals, and even fewer maintain their ideal weight. This problem has been a focus of Dr. Kate Wolin’s – a Harvard-trained scientist with deep expertise in behavior change – for more tha…
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