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Senator Kirk and Governor Romney Visit MATTER, Support Innovation in Healthcare

October 20, 2016

U.S. Senator Mark Kirk and former governor and presidential candidate Mitt Romney today toured healthcare technology incubator MATTER to discuss the future of healthcare with entrepreneurs and innovators.

Located in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart, MATTER is a community of healthcare startups and industry leaders working together to fuel innovation in health IT, medical devices, diagnostics, and …

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Kate Wolin’s Company ScaleDown Aims to Make Weight Loss a Habit

October 20, 2016

A scale and a smartphone are all it takes.

More than 70 percent of Americans are overweight, according to the CDC, and almost everyone who is overweight expresses a desire to lose weight. Yet few achieve their goals, and even fewer maintain their ideal weight. This problem has been a focus of Dr. Kate Wolin’s – a Harvard-trained scientist with deep expertise in behavior change – for more tha…

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Dima Elissa Wants to 3D-print You

October 14, 2016

The serial entrepreneur and technologist’s biomedical design firm creates 3D replicas of body parts for physicians, educators, and medical attorneys alike.

Much of the healthcare world is based on established averages, but averages are just that – and data from individuals often doesn’t match them. That’s why serial Chicago entrepreneur Dima Elissa wants to create a new standard.

“Our world…

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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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