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title: Blog | Nemah
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.

- ## [A two-way conduit for innovation: Meet MATTER’s 2018 innovation fellows](https://blog.matter.health/a-two-way-conduit-for-innovation-meet-matters-2018-innovation-fellows)
  
  Aug 22, 2018
  
  [![A two-way conduit for innovation: Meet MATTER’s 2018 innovation fellows](https://blog.matter.health/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/GenericBlogHero-Jun-18-2025-11-50-05-5408-PM.jpg) ](https://blog.matter.health/a-two-way-conduit-for-innovation-meet-matters-2018-innovation-fellows)
  
  [Earlier this year, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBS) employee Brian Lombardo spent three months embedded at MATTER as BCBS’s first innovation fellow. This fellowship creates a two-way conduit for insight and innovation between MATTER and BCBS.](https://blog.matter.health/a-two-way-conduit-for-innovation-meet-matters-2018-innovation-fellows)
  
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- ## [A conversation with U.S. Representative Peter Roskam](https://blog.matter.health/a-conversation-with-us-representative-peter-roskam)
  
  Aug 14, 2018
  
  [![A conversation with U.S. Representative Peter Roskam](https://blog.matter.health/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/Roskam-2.jpg) ](https://blog.matter.health/a-conversation-with-us-representative-peter-roskam)
  
  [Decisions made in Washington can have profound effects on our healthcare system — everything from biomedical research, to insurance and the delivery of care, to the factors that help shape overall health and wellbeing.](https://blog.matter.health/a-conversation-with-us-representative-peter-roskam)
  
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- tales from the trenches
  
  ## [Corey McCann answers: Can an app be as good as a drug?](https://blog.matter.health/corey-mccann-answers-can-an-app-be-as-good-as-a-drug)
  
  Jul 26, 2018
  
  [![Corey McCann answers: Can an app be as good as a drug?](https://blog.matter.health/hubfs/Imported_Blog_Media/CoreyMcCann-2.jpg) ](https://blog.matter.health/corey-mccann-answers-can-an-app-be-as-good-as-a-drug)
  
  [Corey McCann, founder and CEO of PEAR Therapeutics, is among the trailblazing entrepreneurs developing “digital therapeutics”: a new class of software solutions that undergo clinical studies to prove efficacy. Last fall, PEAR’s reSET® technology — designed to treat patients with substance use disorder — became the first](https://blog.matter.health/corey-mccann-answers-can-an-app-be-as-good-as-a-drug)
  
  [![](https://matter.health/assets/images/ic_right_arrow_blue.svg)Read more](https://blog.matter.health/corey-mccann-answers-can-an-app-be-as-good-as-a-drug)