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rMark Bio Personalizes Academic and Clinical Partnership Research

November 16, 2016

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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Kate Wolin’s Company ScaleDown Aims to Make Weight Loss a Habit

October 20, 2016

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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Dima Elissa Wants to 3D-print You

October 14, 2016

The serial entrepreneur and technologist’s biomedical design firm creates 3D replicas of body parts for physicians, educators, and medical attorneys alike.

Much of the healthcare world is based on established averages, but averages are just that – and data from individuals often doesn’t match them. That’s why serial Chicago entrepreneur Dima Elissa wants to create a new standard.

“Our world…

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MATTER Member Profile: James Lloyd of Redox

October 5, 2016

A Former Epic Employee is Connecting Disparate EHR Systems

2016 medical records don’t belong in manila folders. For years, health systems around the world have put resources into digitizing those records, introducing quicker accessibility, stronger security, and cloud storage. Unfortunately for third party engineers, there’s no universal standard — every health system stores data differently…

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MATTER Member Profile: Scott Drucker of Supply Clinic

September 27, 2016

A Dentist Has Set Out to Fix the Dental Supply Market

As Scott Drucker began preparing for his periodontics residency, he contacted the two largest dental distributors to price out his options to purchase supplies for his program. With their pricing charts in hand, including the “new dentist’s discount” he was offered, Drucker looked online to see if he could find a better deal. There, he st…

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