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Guest post: How digital health is changing care delivery for pharmacists and improving public health

November 5, 2020

CEO and founder of MATTER startup illuminate.health shares thoughts on how COVID-19 is changing the role of pharmacists

Change is here. Pharmacists have been given the authority to order and administer COVID-19 tests by the Department of Health and Human Services. The agency has also called on pharmacists to help increase immunization rates by authorizing them to administer pediatric vaccinati…

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Anthem, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois, and MATTER select pandemic response challenge winners

November 2, 2020

wayForward and WiserCare to pilot winning response solutions

Chicago, IL — MATTER, Anthem, Inc., and Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Illinois (BCBSIL) have named the winners of the Pandemic Response Innovation Challenge. BCBSIL and Anthem teamed with MATTER to identify solutions that support health plan members during the current and future pandemics.

The challenge issued a global call for cre…

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Hear from the winners of the MATTER COVID-19 Support Startup Grants

October 30, 2020

Across industries, COVID-19 has transformed the way businesses design, manufacture and sell their products — often fundamentally changing the businesses themselves.

As part of the COVID-19 Pandemic Response (CPR) initiative, MATTER identified three member startups as recipients of the COVID-19 Support Startup Grants: AgileMD, Diagnostic Photonics and EmOpti. Each of these companies submitted a…

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Meet the newest members of the MATTER startup community

October 28, 2020

The newest MATTER startups are streamlining patient care, preventing blindness, helping people overcome panic attacks and more. Take a minute to meet them and see the heroic change in healthcare happening today.

AEYE Health — New York, New York

AEYE Health is working to prevent blindness by using an artificial intelligence retinal screening system. AEYE Health has developed a highly accurate …

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tales from the trenches

Insights from Corvidia Therapeutics' Michael Davidson at Tales from the Trenches

October 27, 2020

Physician and serial entrepreneur Michael Davidson, MD, joined us for our September Tales from the Trenches™ to discuss his more than 35 years in healthcare, takeaways from leading two major pharmaceutical companies to market and acquisition, advice to young entrepreneurs and his latest endeavor as the founder and CEO of New Amsterdam Pharma.

Michael’s key piece of advice for entrepreneurs? Le…

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