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Every day, innovators across the MATTER community are building new solutions that accelerate innovation, advance care and improve lives. Here’s a look into some of the most noteworthy headlines from the startup members in our community over the past month.
PhysIQ receives NIH commission to develop COVID-19 digital biomarker; partners with Purdue University on study PhysIQ, the developer of t…
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Even before the COVID-19 pandemic took over, pharmaceutical companies were on the hunt for solutions to improve the efficiency of drug development — from which molecules to test through all aspects of patient recruitment and the clinical trial process.
Since the pandemic began, those needs have intensified dramatically. Pharmaceutical companies need tools to help them more efficiently identify…
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matter challenges
MATTER, Three Lakes Foundation and the Pulmonary Fibrosis Foundation today announced the finalists for the 2020 Pulmonary Fibrosis (PF) Innovation Challenge. Selected from a global pool of nearly 50 submissions, each team submitted a solution that can help improve disease awareness, time to diagnosis or care to benefit people living with PF, their caregivers and healthcare providers.
Next up f…
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insights
In the future, health insurance plans will be fully tailored to the individual.
That’s the health insurance experience that Heather Cox, Humana’s first chief digital health and analytics officer, is working to create. In her role, Heather focuses on helping Humana reimagine care delivery and provide leading enterprise analytics — with the ultimate goal of creating differentiated experiences at…
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tales from the trenches
If there is an archetype of a typical healthcare entrepreneur, Matt Omernick is not it.
An artist and computer animator by trade, Matt spent 15 years in the games and entertainment industry before a chance social encounter would inspire the founding of Akili Interactive, a prescription digital medicine company that builds clinically-validated cognitive therapeutics that look and feel like vide…
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