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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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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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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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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