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Advocate Aurora Health chooses finalists for 2021 Health Tech Venture Challenge

July 15, 2021

Finalists focus on provider well-being, MATTER sources and supports selection of top teams

Downers Grove and Chicago, IL — Advocate Aurora Health, one of the 12 largest not-for-profit integrated health systems in the country, and MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, has announced the finalists for the 2021 Health Tech Venture Challenge. The global competition is seeking…

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Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois selects startups for innovation accelerator program

June 23, 2021

MATTER companies Alimus, Compris and Medsense chosen to further develop post-pandemic solutions

Chicago, IL June 21 — Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL) has named the first cohort of early-stage innovators to participate in the BCBSIL Innovation Accelerator program. BCBSIL teamed up with MATTER, the Chicago-based global healthcare incubator and corporate innovation accelerator, to…

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Advancing innovations for maternal and infant health

June 21, 2021

Perspectives on the Healthy Mom and Baby Innovation Competition with Parkview Health

In February of 2020, MATTER and Parkview Health, a not-for-profit healthcare system based in northeast Indiana, announced a partnership to source and develop solutions that improve the health of women during pregnancy and their babies after birth.

Maternal mortality continues to be a challenge both in develop…

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Meet the newest members of the MATTER startup community

June 18, 2021

The newest digital health, life sciences and consumer health startups to join us in April and May are solving healthcare challenges from disease risk assessment to telehealth. Take some time to meet them!

Digital health

AGCS — New Berlin, Wisconsin AGCS is dedicated to globally reducing brain injury in children who suffer from unrecognized seizures through the development of the only FDA appr…

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Listen: Accenture, Advocate Aurora Health and the AMA discuss fostering clinician well-being

June 9, 2021

For more than a year, healthcare heroes have put their lives on the line to fight the COVID-19 pandemic. Mental Health America surveyed 1,119 healthcare workers about their mental health and well-being, and the results were resounding: 93 percent reported stress, 86 percent reported anxiety, 77 percent reported frustration, 76 percent reported exhaustion and burnout and 75 percent said they wer…

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