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A scale and a smartphone are all it takes.
More than 70 percent of Americans are overweight, according to the CDC, and almost everyone who is overweight expresses a desire to lose weight. Yet few achieve their goals, and even fewer maintain their ideal weight. This problem has been a focus of Dr. Kate Wolin’s – a Harvard-trained scientist with deep expertise in behavior change – for more tha…
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The serial entrepreneur and technologist’s biomedical design firm creates 3D replicas of body parts for physicians, educators, and medical attorneys alike.
Much of the healthcare world is based on established averages, but averages are just that – and data from individuals often doesn’t match them. That’s why serial Chicago entrepreneur Dima Elissa wants to create a new standard.
“Our world…
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Fresenius Kabi has joined Chicago’s healthcare innovation incubator, MATTER, as a new strategic “gold” partner, both organizations announced today.
MATTER is a community of healthcare innovators based in Chicago. Fresenius Kabi is a global healthcare company that specializes in medicines and technologies for infusion, transfusion and clinical nutrition. The company is based in Germany with its…
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A Former Epic Employee is Connecting Disparate EHR Systems
2016 medical records don’t belong in manila folders. For years, health systems around the world have put resources into digitizing those records, introducing quicker accessibility, stronger security, and cloud storage. Unfortunately for third party engineers, there’s no universal standard — every health system stores data differently…
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On Wednesday, September 21, Professor Jack Gilbert and Dr. Eugene Yen discussed their research on the human microbiome and fecal microbiota transplants (FMT). The event kicked off the “What’s Next for Healthcare” lecture series, produced by MATTER in partnership with NorthShore University HealthSystem.
Gilbert, who has a background in marine ecology, opened his talk by equating ecosystems in…
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