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Evive’s Prashant Srivastava shares tips for growing a business during a recession

May 22, 2020

In 2007, Prashant Srivastava and Peter Saravis founded healthcare IT company Evive. Less than one year later, the economy went into a free fall, and Prashant and Peter found themselves trying to survive as a young startup during a major recession.

Despite those early challenges, today, Evive is a leader in the benefits navigation space: The company, which uses predictive analytics and behavior…

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Six dimensions to a successful digital workplace and positive employee experience

May 20, 2020

Across nearly all sectors of business, companies large and small have had to quickly adapt to support a newly remote workforce.

Though this shift was initially perceived to be temporary, recent Gartner surveys show that the changes forced by the COVID-19 pandemic are fundamentally altering the way companies view remote work: 41 percent of employees reported that they will likely work remotely …

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The hospital of the future: Sheba Medical Center shares innovation focus during COVID-19

May 15, 2020

Over the last few weeks, we have hosted private roundtables for a number of health systems around the country. Eyal Zimilchman, deputy director, chief medical officer and chief innovation officer of Sheba Medical Center, joined us for a recent conversation.

Sheba is the largest hospital in Israel and has been named one of the top 10 hospitals in the world. Based on his presentation of their re…

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Four ways life sciences companies are adapting to a COVID-19 world

May 1, 2020

The healthcare ecosystem is rapidly evolving in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, MATTER hosted a virtual roundtable with innovation leaders from eight leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies from across the world to compare notes about what they’re focused on today — and how they think the pandemic will affect the policies and norms that shape their business imperatives…

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Livongo’s Glen Tullman shares advice for building a business that can withstand any crisis

April 28, 2020

In the latest conversation in our member-exclusive Navigating COVID-19 webinar series, serial entrepreneur and investor Glen Tullman joined us for an interactive conversation with MATTER startups.

Glen is the founder and executive chairman of Livongo, managing partner at 7Wire Ventures and previously served as the CEO of Allscripts. Having built, run and scaled businesses across a range of ind…

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