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Digital solutions continue to transform the healthcare industry
Digital health companies raised more in the first half of 2021 than in all of 2020, according to Bloomberg. This trend is continuing through the rest of 2021, with two MATTER member companies adding to the rise — NowPow and Explorer Surgical. MATTER is thrilled our community is contributing to this transformation, as it furthers o…
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Global cohort focuses on refining solutions to advance diabetes care
MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, and Cigna, a global health service company, have selected six finalists to move from the incubator to the accelerator phase of the 2021 Cigna Innovation Challenge. The challenge sources solutions focused on empowering more people living with diabetes to reach their …
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How serial entrepreneur Kristina Jones is transforming grief counseling for children
When conducting research in early 2020 for her children’s book, My Forever Guardian, Guardian Lane Founder & CEO Kristina Jones identified a lack of on-demand counseling for children even as the world went through a rapid digital transformation and brought everything online.
In addition to publishing her …
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tales from the trenches
Sean Lane began his career as an intelligence officer in the Air Force, spending most of his government service at the NSA solving challenges as a software engineer and technology leader. Following his service in the U.S. military, Sean started his career as a healthcare entrepreneur, drawn in by the prescription drug abuse problem that engulfed his hometown.
After founding several startups — …
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The app that’s blending digital and in-person physical therapy
Further exacerbated by the pandemic, musculoskeletal (MSK) conditions are affecting increasingly more Americans. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, one in two adults lives with MSK pain each year. At the same time, less than 12 percent of adults living with MSK injuries attend physical therapy (PT) due to high …
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