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Advances in Healthcare Wearables, Connectivity

December 29, 2014

Steve Collens, CEO, MATTER HealthTech Incubator

Collens called it “an incredibly dynamic and exciting time for innovation and entrepreneurship in healthcare.”

“The ability to collect and store and analyze and act on data has evolved dramatically in the past few years,” he said. “It’s been an evolution involving everything from cloud storage to analytics to the penetration of electronic medi…

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Introducing the MATTER Curriculum

December 22, 2014

This fall, the MATTER team held a number of curriculum design sessions with the entrepreneurial community — 30 hours in all — to discuss the key challenges in getting healthcare technology startups off the ground. Special thanks to Chicago Health 2.0 organizers Subbu Arumugam and Jasmin Phua, and MATTER Mentor-in-Residence Jordan Dolin, who significantly contributed to these sessions. Based on …

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MATTER Partners with Insight Product Development for Medical Device Design Innovation

December 16, 2014

Chicago Health Tech Ecosystem Leader Draws on Insight Expertise to Accelerate Local Entrepreneurship

MATTER, Chicago’s new entrepreneurship and innovation hub for next-generation health IT, medical device, diagnostics and biopharma, and Insight Product Development, a design innovation consultancy, have announced their partnership for medical device design innovation. As part of the partnership…

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MATTER Accepts 10 More Healthcare Tech Startups Into The Community

December 12, 2014

We have received many incredible applicants to join the MATTER community. Today we are proud to announce that 10 more innovative healthcare technology companies will be joining the community when we open early next year.

The 10 startups are:

4D Healthware provides smart, individualized and automated suggestions throughout the day to help people live a healthier life. The software is designed …

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MATTER Launches Mentors-In-Residence Program to Provide Coaching For Healthcare Tech Startups

December 8, 2014

MATTER, Chicago’s new entrepreneurship and innovation hub for next-generation health IT, medical device, diagnostics and biopharma companies, today launched its Mentors-in-Residence program. MATTER’s mentors-in-residence are veteran entrepreneurs, executives and investors who will help advise the incubator’s member companies.

MATTER’s first members-in-residence are: Jordan Dolin, founder of Em…

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