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MATTER, the new healthcare technology incubator for next-generation health IT, medical device, diagnostics and biopharma companies, today announced the election of 10 national healthcare and business leaders to its governing board.

The recently elected board members are:

Laura Ferris Anderson, chief of staff, office of the Midwest chairman for JPMorgan Chase & Co.
  
  
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Almost every industry in recent decades has fundamentally changed its processes, except health care. The care process has not been redesigned, despite the fact that we have never had better technology, and we all know that if we designed a system from the ground up today, it would look nothing like the one we have. So, as tens of thousands of health and technology experts descend upon Chicago f…

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100 Investors Expected to Attend the Midwest University HealthTech Showcase, co-developed with Indiana University

Inventors of 50 promising new healthcare technologies from nine midwestern universities will connect with 100 investors and industry executives tonight at the Midwest University HealthTech Showcase at MATTER. The showcase, sponsored by MB Real Estate, is being held in conjunction w…

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Dozens of healthcare technology startups from nine of the top research universities in the Midwest will showcase their inventions in front of investors Monday night at MATTER.

The Midwest University HealthTech Showcase will bring around 100 investors and industry professionals to the Merchandise Mart to check out new healthcare technologies from 50 early-stage companies based out of nine Midwe…

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Cardiac resuscitation specialist Dr. Dana Edelson says she’d like to help data analytics do for healthcare what it’s done for baseball.

“We task clinicians to interpret vast amounts of data in less amounts of time,” Edelson said at last week’s kickoff event opening the Matter health information technology startup company incubator in Chicago’s Merchandise Mart.

Edelson, an assistant professor…

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