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How to make your healthcare innovation challenge application stand out: An interview with patientMpower

August 14, 2020

For startups, winning a healthcare innovation challenge or pitch competition can be the boost they need to grow their business. However, hundreds of startups apply to the same challenges each year — and often, businesses with great solutions fail to even make it to the final round of the challenge they applied for. So how do you make sure your application and pitch don’t get lost in the noise? …

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How physIQ’s AI technology became the perfect pandemic response tool

August 14, 2020

Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, businesses across healthcare have faced the challenge of retooling and pivoting their solutions to focus on the fight against COVID-19. But for MATTER startup physIQ, no pivoting, revising or overhauling was necessary: The company’s predictive analytics technologies were already uniquely suited to meet several of the needs and use cases of COVID-19 — and ready …

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Workplace Culture Meets COVID-19: Lessons from cross-industry leaders

August 12, 2020

This article originally appeared on cprcovid-19.com.

Authors: Betsy Ziegler, Steven Collens and Haven Allen

Before COVID, ~4M Americans worked remotely, with only a few organizations (e.g., GitHub, Basecamp) being “remote first”. Most organizations had a culture of physically proximate, in real life interaction — the magic that happens when everyone is in the office — and treated work from ho…

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Meet the newest members joining the MATTER startup community

August 7, 2020

The newest startups at MATTER are improving performance management, developing custom COVID-19 protocols and helping new moms take control of their mental health. Take a minute to meet them.

Advanced Interactive Response Systems — Newaygo, Michigan

Advanced Interactive Response Systems (AIRS) is an FDA-registered respiratory provider of oxygen safety and oxygen delivery data collection. AIRS…

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Level Ex acquired by Brainlab: A look into the medical video game startup’s 5 year journey

August 5, 2020

Doctors are people too.

That basic concept has guided Sam Glassenberg as he’s taken his medical video game company, Level Ex, from a startup to a successful company that was recently acquired by digital medical technology company Brainlab.

“Doctors play games. They use the latest smartphones. They know what a good user interface looks like,” said Sam. “Yet, we find that healthcare companies m…

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