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Update: Congratulations to the BCBSIL Health Equity Innovation Challenge winners! BCBSIL executives selected three winners following a live pitch event at MATTER on December 3, 2018.

1st place: Bright Pink won $15,000 and a pilot with BCBSIL. “Bright Pink is thrilled for the opportunity to partner with MATTER and BCBSIL to democratize access to personalized breast and ovarian cancer preventio…

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“We all have hidden blind spots. I challenge you, over these next few days, to question your own assumptions and use this opportunity to learn from the diverse set of expertise and experiences in this room,” said MATTER Senior Program Director Arun Bhatia in his opening remarks at last week’s Novo Nordisk Innovation Challenge bootcamp.

Challenge semi-finalists, selected from a competitive pool…

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Congratulations to the Novo Nordisk Innovation Challenge semi-finalists, who represent four countries and six U.S. states. These teams each proposed an idea for how to use data from Novo Nordisk’s marketed pen injector device to improve diabetes care. The semi-finalists were selected for the ingenuity and creativity of their ideas, and for the potential of their solution to improve life for peo…

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