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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Comfort zone

With “smart vents,” alumni-led startup Ecovent retrofits homes for room-by-room temperature control

Jan 29, 2016
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With technology on the rise, a college degree isn’t job insurance

A new study analyzes seven key skills for a changing economy

Jan 27, 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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Ideas Made to Matter Career

Three from MIT Sloan on Forbes “30 Under 30” lists

Young alumni honored for work in finance, games, and science

Jan 6, 2016
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Ideas Made to Matter Health Care

Good SIRS sweeps MIT $100K Pitch on path to prevent deaths from sepsis

Team from Boston Children’s Hospital presents blood-filtering device currently in tests

Oct 29, 2015
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Ideas Made to Matter Risk Management

Best of a bad situation: choosing which disasters to prevent

In a world of finite resources, which worst-case scenarios should we prepare for? And which should we let go?

Oct 27, 2015
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Ideas Made to Matter Fintech

Alumni-led Destácame helps middle class prove credit in Latin America

New approach to credit scores uses algorithm developed at MIT

Oct 1, 2015
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