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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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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, 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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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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press release
David W. Johnson, author of Market vs. Medicine: America’s Epic Fight for Better, Affordable Healthcare, writer of the widely read Market Corner commentaries, and founder and CEO of 4sight Health, will join healthcare technology incubator MATTER as its author-in-residence. During his year-long residency, Johnson will tell stories from the frontlines of innovation in American healthcare, blogg…
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