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Leaders from AT&T, Teladoc and Sage Growth Partners discuss how to build a whole person employee health strategy

March 29, 2021

To best serve their employees, today’s self-insured employers need a benefits solution that enables whole person care — collaboration and regular communication across all of an individual’s providers, from primary care to behavioral health, to improve health outcomes while making more effective and efficient use of resources. Employers have a wide array of options when it comes to identifying t…

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insights

VIDEO: MATTER founders discuss increasing representation for patients and entrepreneurs

March 19, 2021

In February, MATTER startup entrepreneurs Kistein Monkhouse, CEO and founder of Patient Orator, and Javier Evelyn, CEO and Founder of Alerje, joined us in celebrating Black History Month and discussed how they’re building both solutions and communities to create a more equitable healthcare experience.

Watch the full event to learn more about the impacts of race on the entrepreneurial journey a…

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tales from the trenches

Listen: A conversation with co-founder of Devoted Health and former CTO of the United States Todd Park

March 16, 2021

Todd Park is the co-founder and executive chairman of Devoted Health, a leader in the Medicare Advantage space that serves seniors by providing them with a next generation health plan. Todd has launched several healthcare startups and also served as the tech advisor to President Barack Obama and the CTO of the United States.

In a conversation moderated by VillageMD Co-founder and Chief Growth …

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community

Meet the newest members of the MATTER startup community

March 4, 2021

The newest MATTER startups are improving care for people living with chronic GI conditions, creating affordable sanitizing equipment, simplifying the vaccine process and more. Take a minute to meet them and see the heroic change in healthcare happening today.

Able Innovations Inc — Toronto, Ontario

Able Innovation’s mission is to develop innovative assistive mobility devices to improve health…

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success stories

Event recap: Fibroblast CEO Scott Vold shares his startup’s path to Acquisition by EMR giant Cerner

March 3, 2021

In 2010, Scott Vold was an attorney working 80 hour weeks, on the path to partnership — and completely miserable.

With no positive outlook on how that could change working in law, he decided to take the plunge into entrepreneurship in one of the riskiest industries for startups: healthcare. Fast forward ten years, and Scott’s digital health startup Fibroblast is not only a success, but was rec…

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