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In May of 2026, healthcare leaders from across Chicago met at MATTER’s headquarters to discuss what’s keeping them up at night. The event put a range of leaders, from new startups to investment groups, at a table for an authentic chat, and, no, it didn’t turn into a pitch competition. Instead, MATTER partnered with ZoCo, a healthcare-focused UX and research consultancy, to facilitate conversati…

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Healthcare leaders share five lessons every early-stage healthcare startup founder should know about AI, health system partnerships, compliance and growth.

Healthcare is changing quickly — and so are the expectations for startups building solutions to improve it.

At a recent private gathering hosted by MATTER, healthcare investors, health system leaders, payers and policy experts discussed th…

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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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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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Healthcare organizations are navigating a crowded and confusing AI landscape. Recent reports show 95 percent of corporate AI pilots fail, and many executives see little return. Yet pioneers like Kaiser Permanente are showing what’s possible with careful governance and system-wide strategy.

We sat down with Justin Massa, founder of Remix Partners and AI expert, to talk about what leaders should…

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