Ideas Made to Matter Entrepreneurship

Tactile, translating printed text to Braille, wins MIT $100K Pitch

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Birth control reminder app and device take audience choice award.

Nov 8, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

How an analytics-based predictive model can improve kidney transplant survival rates

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Doctors need to trust their intuition, but a decision support tool can help them make hard choices.

Sep 22, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

MIT students design and donate sleeping bags to Syrian refugees

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"It’s a simple solution to a big problem."

Sep 13, 2017
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MIT Sloan professors design model to improve decision-making process for kidney transplantation

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MIT Sloan Profs. Dimitris Bertsimas and Prof. Nikos Trichakis created a data-based model to improve the kidney transplant decision-making process.

Sep 1, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

New study finds in-home smart mat will aid diabetes patients

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MIT Sloan-born tech improves foot ulcer detection, prevents amputations.

Jul 21, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Three unique challenges for medical device startups

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In this industry, you don’t have the luxury of failing fast.

Jun 7, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Research

Turns out exercise is contagious

With five years of fitness data, MIT Sloan researchers show you run more when your friends run more.

Apr 18, 2017
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New study by MIT Sloan School of Management professors shows exercise is contagious

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The data is in and the findings are conclusive: Exercise is contagious.

Apr 18, 2017
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Can one 3-D printed pill replace a pile of vitamins?

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Precision robotics allows for the controlled release of supplements in a single pill.

Apr 6, 2017
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MIT Sloan School of Management and Universidad de Chile to host a conference exploring how strategic analytics is changing the future of healthcare 

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Symposium takes place on May 25, 2017 at the Santiago Business & Conference Center

Apr 5, 2017
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