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MATTER turns 10!

MATTER is moving

The hospital of the future: Sheba Medical Center shares innovation focus during COVID-19

Four ways life sciences companies are adapting to a COVID-19 world

Three focus areas for health system innovation leaders in the face of COVID-19

Healthcare innovation is more important than ever

#MATTERturns5: Five years in, MATTER is a global innovation hub

Five ingredients for a culture of innovation

Healthcare in the year 2040

CEO Steven Collens on accelerating innovation through collaboration

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MATTER turns 10!

Feb 13, 2025

MATTER’s mission is to accelerate the pace of change of healthcare, and we’ve been doing that now for 10 years. Since we first opened in 2015, we have supported 1,000 healthcare and life sciences startups, built a community of 60,000 entrepreneurs, executives, investors and other experts committed to improving health and healthcare and created hundreds of collaborations between startups and the...
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MATTER is moving

Jul 8, 2024

Here’s what you need to know about MATTER’s future office I have some important news to share: MATTER is moving…twice!
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The hospital of the future: Sheba Medical Center shares innovation focus during COVID-19

May 15, 2020

Over the last few weeks, we have hosted private roundtables for a number of health systems around the country. Eyal Zimilchman, deputy director, chief medical officer and chief innovation officer of Sheba Medical Center, joined us for a recent conversation.
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Four ways life sciences companies are adapting to a COVID-19 world

May 1, 2020

The healthcare ecosystem is rapidly evolving in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Last week, MATTER hosted a virtual roundtable with innovation leaders from eight leading pharmaceutical and medical device companies from across the world to compare notes about what they’re focused on today — and how they think the pandemic will affect the policies and norms that shape their business imperatives...
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Three focus areas for health system innovation leaders in the face of COVID-19

Mar 30, 2020

As COVID-19 continues to spread, health systems are racing to ramp up their innovation efforts. Last week, MATTER hosted a virtual roundtable with innovation leaders from a dozen health systems so they could share what they are learning and doing to help their communities address the pandemic. The discussion included leaders from around the country — including New York, New Jersey, Los Angeles,...
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Healthcare innovation is more important than ever

Mar 19, 2020

Wow, what a difference a few days can make. The COVID-19 pandemic has changed the way everyday life looks for all of us. We know it’s going to get worse before it gets better, and the coming days and weeks are going to be challenging — for our families, our communities and our businesses. While there is much uncertainty in our future, one thing is crystal clear: healthcare innovation is more im...
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#MATTERturns5: Five years in, MATTER is a global innovation hub

Feb 14, 2020

We opened MATTER five years ago with the idea that we could help entrepreneurs and innovators build healthcare solutions by harnessing the enormous expertise and resources that are available in Chicago — including leading companies across all sectors of healthcare, top-tier health systems and research institutions, and most of the major medical associations. There was a lot of uncertainty: Were...
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Five ingredients for a culture of innovation

Dec 12, 2019

Over the last several years, MATTER has worked with dozens of hospitals and health systems. The majority of health system leaders we meet want to be innovative, but very few feel confident in building the kinds of systems and culture that an organization needs to continuously transform new ideas into solutions.
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Healthcare in the year 2040

May 24, 2019

CEO Steven Collens shares his thoughts on what the healthcare system will look like 20 years from now. This article was originally published in MedCity News.
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CEO Steven Collens on accelerating innovation through collaboration

Oct 10, 2018

CEO Steven Collens shares an update from MATTER, three years after opening its doors. This article was originally published in the September 2018 issue of Chicago Medicine.
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