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Digital health deals: GE Healthcare starts accelerator, UnitedHealthcare adds online weight loss offering, and more

By Heather Mack 02:58 pm October 6, 2016

GE Healthcare has launched a healthcare accelerator called five.eight to improve health outcomes for the world’s developing economies. So-named for the 5.8 billion people worldwide who lack access to quality, affordable healthcare, the accelerator will look for global health startups with aims to improve healthcare quality and accessibility in places with low resources. The initial program will...

Startup Health adds 12 more companies to its portfolio

By Aditi Pai 10:15 am June 2, 2015

New York City-based accelerator Startup Health has added 12 more companies to its program. It now has 102 startups in its portfolio. Startups that have participated in the accelerator have raised a total of $200 million so far. That’s up from $190 million in January 2015. Startup Health said that 44 percent of its companies were founded by physicians or other practitioners, and 33 percent were...