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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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MATTER Member Profile: Feyi Olopade Ayodele of CancerIQ

August 31, 2016

How CancerIQ’s “Genetics Clinic in a Box” is Revolutionizing Cancer Risk Screening for Community Healthcare Providers

The first light bulb went off on Mt. Kilimanjaro. It was 2012, and Feyi Olopade Ayodele was standing on the mythic African peak with her mother, Dr. Funmi Olopade, an award-winning cancer researcher from the University of Chicago. Feyi – who then focused on making early stage…

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MATTER Member Profile: Jim Ivers of Mondopoint

August 26, 2016

How a Medical-device-rep-turned-entrepreneur is Trimming the Fat in Hospital Supply

As the shift to value-based care brings sea change to the healthcare industry and hospitals look to provide more value at lower cost, the iron is hot for healthtech innovators to strike and help hospitals cut their supply expense. Enter Mondopoint – a platform that puts hospitals in the driver’s seat with tool…

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Tales from the Trenches: Eric Langshur of Abundant Venture Partners

July 7, 2016

Eric Langshur, co-founder of AVIA and Abundant Venture Partners, author of Start Here: Master the Lifelong Habit of Wellbeing, and serial entrepreneur, spoke with ContextMedia CEO Rishi Shah at MATTER’s popularTales from the Trencheslive interview series. The two friends talked about the importance of a strong company culture, how to maintain your “true north” in the middle of failure, and the …

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MATTER Member Profile: Dr. Richard Vazquez, SafeStart

July 1, 2016

Just as aircraft pilots go through a preflight checklist prior to takeoff, so, too, are surgeons expected to review the WHO Surgical Safety Checklist prior to a skin incision. The 19-item list of best pre-op practices developed by the World Health Organization, in association with the Harvard School of Public Health, is intended to prevent the occurrence of so-called “never events,” largely p…

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