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MATTER Announces Partnership with Healthios

January 16, 2015

Partnership Supports MATTER Mission to Attract Investment Capital to Drive Innovation and Commercialization of Next-Generation Healthcare Solutions and to Foster Collaboration Across Region’s Healthcare Community

MATTER, the entrepreneurship and innovation hub for next-generation health IT, medical device and biopharma companies, today announced a strategic partnership with Chicago-based Healt…

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MATTER Accepts 10 More Healthcare Tech Startups Into The Community Bringing Current Count To 40

January 9, 2015

As we near closer to our official launch next month, MATTER is excited to announce another terrific group of member companies accepted into the community. The 10 new companies announced today bring MATTER’s current member count to 40.

The 10 new startup members are:

DRECTED is a new market for medical information exchange. The company connects healthcare industry and physician experts to adva…

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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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