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MATTER and Sheba Medical Center Partner to Advance Healthcare Innovation

October 4, 2017

The premier healthcare incubator’s new agreement with the leading Israeli medical center will accelerate healthcare technology commercialization.

Chicago, IL, September 20, 2017 – MATTER, the Chicago-based healthcare incubator, innovation community, and corporate innovation accelerator, and Sheba Medical Center, the leading medical innovation center in Israel, have signed a Memorandum of Under…

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A Look Inside MATTER, the Nonprofit Health Care Tech Incubator

September 27, 2017

This Chicago incubator is based on the premise that success comes from surrounding great entrepreneurs with other great entrepreneurs and with great mentors.

Every big city has a number of business incubators and accelerators. Many small cities do too. (Even mine does.) According to the National Business Incubation Association there are over 1,200 programs in the U.S. alone.

But aside from sh…

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Ian Manners Wants to Reduce Out-of-pocket Prescription Drug Costs

September 26, 2017

Vivor helps connect qualifying patients with financial assistance programs.

Out-of-pocket drug costs have risen dramatically in recent years. And while the vast majority of patients qualify for financial assistance programs funded by the pharmaceutical companies that produce the drugs, less than a quarter of those patients ever receive the money for which they qualify. Ian Manners, CEO of th…

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Precision Health in the Clinic: Gaining Physician Buy-in

September 20, 2017

An Interview with Dr. Karen Kaul

At the most recent event in our “Healthcare for What’s Next” series – hosted in partnership with NorthShore University HealthSystem – Dr. Karen Kaul, chair of the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at NorthShore, joined Dr. Julia Trosman, co-founder and co-director of the Center for Business Models in Healthcare, for a panel discussion focused on h…

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Health Care Council of Chicago Releases First-ever “State of Health Care” Report

September 7, 2017

The Health Care Council of Chicago (HC3) – an initiative of MATTER and Leavitt Partners – presented a first-of-its-kind white paper outlining the state of the healthcare industry in Chicago, during an event today at MATTER with Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel.

The report concludes that Chicago’s $69 billion healthcare industry has a diversity of assets that position the city to accelerate innovat…

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