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Five startups advancing innovation in diabetes management

February 8, 2019

This week at MATTER, five startups with innovative ideas to improve diabetes management worked with Novo Nordisk and MATTER mentors to further develop and test their solutions. The startups — Adelie Health, xBird, SimpleC, MedoPad and HumanCapitalWorks — were chosen from a competitive pool of teams who presented their concepts at the Novo Nordisk Innovation Challenge Demo Day in December 2018. …

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MATTER members raised $260M in 2018, generated $102M in revenue

January 28, 2019

MATTER’s 2018 Year in Review highlights accomplishments as the innovation hub enters its fifth year

January 29, Chicago, IL — MATTER, the premier healthcare incubator and innovation hub, today released a report highlighting the MATTER community’s successes in 2018.

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Collectively, MATTER startup members raised $260 million in funding and earned more than $102 million in revenu…

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Startup Shoutouts: January 25, 2018

January 25, 2019

Every day, innovators across the MATTER community are building new solutions that accelerate innovation, advance care and improve lives. Here’s a look into the most noteworthy headlines from the past few weeks.

“Aiva, meet Thrive Senior Living.”

Aiva Health is working with Atlanta-based senior living community, Thrive Senior Living, to integrate conversational artificial intelligence across a…

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“Platforming” healthcare: A conversation with Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips

January 8, 2019

Are healthcare professionals and organizations actually solving the problems they’re paid to solve? Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, executive vice president and chief clinical officer for Providence Health and Services, doesn’t think so — and she shared big ideas on how to change that from the MATTER stage.

Amy observed that the healthcare industry has become “flabby,” with health systems so preoccu…

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The new health consumer: A conversation with Livongo’s Glen Tullman

December 18, 2018

In a system designed to treat acute conditions rather than manage chronic ones, how can we rethink the current approach to healthcare? In his new book, On Our Terms, Livongo CEO Glen Tullman argues that we need to view the people actually living with chronic disease not as patients, but rather as health consumers.

On November 19, MATTER CEO Steven Collens sat down with Glen to discuss how we, …

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