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CareQuest Innovation Partners and MATTER open applications for SMILE Health and ACCELERATE to improve oral and integrated health

April 1, 2026

Programs advance medical-dental integration and healthcare innovation amid rising demand for access, interoperability and outcomes-driven health solutions

April 1, 2026 (BOSTON and CHICAGO) — As the healthcare ecosystem accelerates its shift toward whole-person care, CareQuest Innovation Partners®, in collaboration with MATTER, is advancing SMILE Health and ACCELERATE to scale solutions that i…

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insights

Why AI pilots die after launch — and what commercial teams miss

March 3, 2026

Many commercial teams have already reached the conclusion that AI underperformance isn’t a technology problem. The harder realization is that adoption failure is rarely abstract — it shows up in very specific, repeatable ways inside organizations. Understanding those patterns, and how they change depending on where an asset sits in the commercial lifecycle, is often the difference between pilot…

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insights

Commercial pharma doesn’t have an AI problem. It has an adoption problem.

February 24, 2026

It’s no longer a question of whether commercial pharma organizations will adopt AI. Most already have.

Across targeting, forecasting, access strategy and field effectiveness, many teams are running pilots or using production tools. And yet, when commercial leaders step back and look at outcomes, the results are uneven.

Some initiatives deliver localized wins. Many generate insight. Fewer mate…

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Applications are now open to the 2026 AbbVie Foundation Health Equity Accelerator

January 27, 2026

Nonprofits are invited to submit innovative solutions that increase access to care in communities across the U.S. and its territories

The AbbVie Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working to drive transformative change and advance health equity in communities worldwide, in partnership with MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, announced today a call for applications for t…

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matter challenges

Six startups awarded non-dilutive funding through Paratus Digital Health Accelerator, part of the BARDA Accelerator Network

December 10, 2025

CHICAGO, IL — MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, is pleased to announce six startups selected to receive non-dilutive funding through the Paratus Digital Health Accelerator, the digital health hub of the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) Accelerator Network.

These milestone-based projects will support early-stage innovators developing digi…

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