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title: Blog | Heidi
description: Stay up to date on healthcare news, stories and insights from across the MATTER community.
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# Blog

#### Stay up to date on healthcare news, stories and insights from across the MATTER community.

# MATTER Blog

Stay up to date on healthcare news, stories and insights from across the MATTER community.

- press release
  
  ## [Human Practice: MATTER – Uniting Chicago’s Healthcare Communities](https://blog.matter.health/human-practice-matter-uniting-chicagos-healthcare-communities)
  
  Sep 24, 2014
  
  [If you’re hip in Chicago, you’ve probably heard of 1871, the entrepreneurial space for digital startups. What you might not be aware of yet is MATTER, an emerging incubator built solely for healthcare technology startups. Like 1871, it calls the Merchandise Mart its home, and it opens in early 2015. As a healthcare startup, we’re excited to have all of Chicago’s greatest minds in health innovat...](https://blog.matter.health/human-practice-matter-uniting-chicagos-healthcare-communities)
  
  [![](https://matter.health/assets/images/ic_right_arrow_blue.svg)Read more](https://blog.matter.health/human-practice-matter-uniting-chicagos-healthcare-communities)