Stories

With the evolution of technology, health data has advanced far beyond the individual, static data point of the past. But while this advancement promises to improve human health, it also raises big questions: Who owns the data, who controls it and how do we connect it to deliver value to patients?

On February 5, Rowan Chapman, head of J&J Innovation, California, joined us at MATTER for a fi…

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Are healthcare professionals and organizations actually solving the problems they’re paid to solve? Dr. Amy Compton-Phillips, executive vice president and chief clinical officer for Providence Health and Services, doesn’t think so — and she shared big ideas on how to change that from the MATTER stage.

Amy observed that the healthcare industry has become “flabby,” with health systems so preoccu…

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A conversation with Derek J. Robinson, MD, MBA, FACEP, CHCQM, Vice President and Chief Medical Officer, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois

Dr. Derek Robinson has dedicated his career to helping all people achieve their best possible health — from caring for individuals as an emergency medical physician, to improving care for populations as an executive at top institutions. Dr. Robinson hel…

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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.

Gastroenterologist Lawrence Kosinski had a problem. He would see his patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) when they came in for appointments, but would lose touch with them between visits. Sometimes — too often, i…

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