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Startup Chicago incubator targets healthcare delivery

February 18, 2015

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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Governor Rauner, Senator Durbin and Mayor Emanuel open MATTER, Chicago’s new incubator for healthcare innovation

February 13, 2015

Governor Bruce Rauner, Senator Dick Durbin and Mayor Rahm Emanuel today marked the official opening of MATTER, Chicago’s new entrepreneurship and innovation incubator for next-generation health IT, medical device, diagnostics and biopharma companies. MATTER brings together healthcare entrepreneurs, researchers, academics, industry leaders, investors and associations to connect and collaborate o…

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AMA, health-tech hub MATTER team up to bolster care

February 5, 2015

The American Medical Association and Matter, a health care technology incubator, are teaming up to improve how physicians and patients interact.

Chicago-based AMA, the nation’s largest physician organization, and Matter, which opened this weekat the Merchandise Mart, today are kicking off a partnership that will include creating the AMA Interaction Studio at Matter. The idea is for physicians …

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American Medical Association, Chicago incubator launch health lab with virtual clinical settings

February 5, 2015

The American Medical Association has partnered with Matter, a Chicago-based incubator for healthcare companies, to build a digital health lab called the AMA Interaction Studio. This studio will be designed to help physicians, entrepreneurs, and health care professionals develop and test new health-focused technology.

“Innovation is a key driver in making the health system work better for every…

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AMA, MATTER Partner for Transformative Healthcare Innovation and Tech-enabled “Physician Office of the Future”

February 4, 2015

The AMA Interaction Studio at MATTER will facilitate development of technologies to improve health care delivery, patient/physician interactions and quality of care.

With a shared commitment to meeting the evolving needs of the health care marketplace, the American Medical Association (AMA) and MATTER, Chicago’s new health care technology incubator, today announced a partnership to drive innov…

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