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Fresenius Kabi Joins Chicago Health Innovation Incubator MATTER as Newest Strategic Partner

October 11, 2016

Fresenius Kabi has joined Chicago’s healthcare innovation incubator, MATTER, as a new strategic “gold” partner, both organizations announced today.

MATTER is a community of healthcare innovators based in Chicago. Fresenius Kabi is a global healthcare company that specializes in medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition. The company is based in Germany with its…

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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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Predictive Poop: Microbiomes and Gut Health

September 29, 2016

On Wednesday, September 21, Professor Jack Gilbert and Dr. Eugene Yen discussed their research on the human microbiome and fecal microbiota transplants (FMT). The event kicked off the “What’s Next for Healthcare” lecture series, produced by MATTER in partnership with NorthShore University HealthSystem.

Gilbert, who has a background in marine ecology, opened his talk by equating ecosystems in…

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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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MATTER Launches The OSF Simulation Stage in Partnership with OSF HealthCare

September 6, 2016

New specialty environment at MATTER lets healthcare innovators develop ideas and test products in real-world clinical scenarios; first project will focus on hospital observation units

MATTER, in partnership OSF HealthCare, today announced the launch of The OSF Simulation Stage at MATTER, a flexible simulation environment designed to allow early-stage healthcare technology innovators to test …

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