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AI and Mental Health: A Startup's Journey with Blueprint

September 9, 2024

A 2023 study revealed that patients of therapists who overestimated their effectiveness often fared worse than those whose therapists had an accurate or even underestimated sense of their effectiveness.1 This is where measurement-informed care and care pathways become crucial. Blueprint, a MATTER startup member, provides essential resources to clients, clinicians and organizations, ensuring tha…

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How AI is revolutionizing PTSD treatment: Insights from Omer Golan, founder and CEO of MyWhatIf

September 6, 2024

According to Mental Health America, approximately 20.78 percent of adults experienced a mental illness in 2019-2020, and more than half (54.7 percent) of adults with a mental illness did not receive treatment, with financial barriers being a significant reason.1 Recent research highlights how artificial intelligence (AI) is significantly enhancing the accessibility of mental healthcare, includi…

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The AbbVie Foundation and MATTER launch the AbbVie Foundation Health Equity Accelerator

September 4, 2024

U.S. nonprofits invited to submit innovative solutions that rethink the delivery, space, and place of care for communities

September 4, 2024, CHICAGO, IL — The AbbVie Foundation, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit working to drive transformative change and advance health equity in communities worldwide, in partnership with MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, announce the launch of …

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Startup Spotlight: healthKERI

August 22, 2024

How Jared Jeffery, founder and CEO of healthKERI, used his “second lease on life” to secure the future of health data.

healthKERI exists because healthcare impacts everyone—not in some abstract sense, but in deeply personal ways. The founders of healthKERI know firsthand how critical modern technology is in healthcare settings, and they’re also aware of its security risks. Now, healthKERI is c…

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VSP Vision and MATTER announce winners of inaugural innovation challenge and $20,000 in prizes

August 20, 2024

August 20, 2024, CHICAGO, IL, and RANCHO CORDOVA, CA – MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, and VSP Vision™, the leader in delivering access to health-focused vision care, proudly announce RevitalVision as the winner of the first ever VSP Vision Innovation Challenge. RevitalVision takes home the $10,000 Grand Prize for their non-invasive algorithm-based technology that t…

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