Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Financing around a health care bottleneck

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A new MIT Sloan course will apply alternative funding techniques to new drug development.

Oct 13, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Data

Bringing big data to drug discovery

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twoXAR, co-founded by MIT Sloan alumnus, uses machine learning to identify drug candidates in minutes, not years.

Sep 28, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

The last mile: startup gets medical equipment up and running in Africa

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Founded at MIT Sloan, Medical Devices as a Service provides defibrillators, ultrasound machines, and other equipment to Nigerian hospitals.

Aug 8, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Student team tackles diabetes prevention in India

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India Lab’s project may improve screening.

Jun 17, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Lung cancer screening from Astraeus Technologies wins MIT $100K

Early detection breath test could be first on new platform to quickly and cheaply diagnose deadly diseases.

May 12, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Behavioral Science

How behavioral science could boost development in the Caribbean

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For Cuba and Trinidad and Tobago, nine proposals to reduce waste, improve public health, and spur entrepreneurship.

Apr 5, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Data

Patients key to making sense of medical data

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As big data unfolds, health care analytics world remains fractured, siloed

Mar 1, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Device to treat sepsis wins first MIT Sloan Healthcare Innovations Prize

GoodSIRS takes $25,000 first prize; second prize to tanning bed with no ultraviolet radiation

Feb 26, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Technology

With nanotech, expanding the brain to the cloud

Futurist Ray Kurzweil on disease-fighting nanorobots and a cloud-based brain expansion

Feb 22, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Eight MIT startup teams are building health care prototypes to win $10,000

3-D-printed pills, a breath test for lung cancer, and more debut at Feb. 10 competition

Jan 20, 2016
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