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Dozens of healthcare technology startups from nine of the top research universities in the Midwest will showcase their inventions in front of investors Monday night at MATTER.

The Midwest University HealthTech Showcase will bring around 100 investors and industry professionals to the Merchandise Mart to check out new healthcare technologies from 50 early-stage companies based out of nine Midwe…

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Cardiac resuscitation specialist Dr. Dana Edelson says she’d like to help data analytics do for healthcare what it’s done for baseball.

“We task clinicians to interpret vast amounts of data in less amounts of time,” Edelson said at last week’s kickoff event opening the Matter health information technology startup company incubator in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart.

Edelson, an assistant professor…

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Governor Bruce Rauner, Senator Dick Durbin and Mayor Rahm Emanuel today marked the official opening of MATTER, Chicago’s new entrepreneurship and innovation incubator for next-generation health IT, medical device, diagnostics and biopharma companies. MATTER brings together healthcare entrepreneurs, researchers, academics, industry leaders, investors and associations to connect and collaborate o…

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The American Medical Association and Matter, a health care technology incubator, are teaming up to improve how physicians and patients interact.

Chicago-based AMA, the nation’s largest physician organization, and Matter, which opened this weekat the Merchandise Mart, today are kicking off a partnership that will include creating the AMA Interaction Studio at Matter. The idea is for physicians …

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