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Meet the newest additions to the MATTER community

April 24, 2018

Our newest MATTER members are tackling problems ranging from infection rates at medical facilities to the challenges of managing care and making healthy choices. Take a minute to meet them!

Eamonn Costello CEO, patientMpower

What is patientMpower’s mission? patientMpower is empowering better outcomes by enabling patients to better manage their care & providing unique data insights for hea…

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insights

Reaching across the value chain: how novel collaborations can accelerate healthcare innovation

April 18, 2018

The business of healthcare is changing.

As the economic and payment models that defined the industry in the 20th century become increasingly unsustainable, new models focused on delivering value to patients — rather than billing for procedures — are taking root. This fundamental shift in the way healthcare companies are expected to do business, along with extraordinary advances in technology, …

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tales from the trenches

From high tech to healthcare: a seasoned entrepreneur learns ‘pacing’

March 23, 2018

An interview with SilverVue CEO Will West

Will West is a prolific tech entrepreneur with a long track record of success. In 2013, he took Control4, the leading whole-home automation company, public. Before that, he co-founded iBAHN (originally STSN), the worldwide leader in broadband services for business travelers. He has raised close to $400 million in private capital for his last three comp…

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MATTER Spotlight: Missy Lavender, founder of Below Your Belt

March 13, 2018

Missy Lavender’s journey to founding Below Your Belt began with her own experience as a patient. After giving birth to her son, Missy joined the one-third of women who develop a pelvic health disorder in adulthood.

She founded Below Your Belt to equip women and Girls+ — including girls, trans boys, intersex and nonbinary kids, youths who are otherwise queer or questioning, and all of their g…

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MATTER launches #healthtogether

February 28, 2018

Join our digital conversation about businesses working together to advance care and improve lives.

MATTER was founded with a thesis: Collaboration between businesses is the best way to improve healthcare.

On the surface this premise sounds straightforward, but in practice working together can be extraordinarily complicated. Nowhere is collaboration more complicated than in healthcare, where…

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