General Electric's healthcare technology subsidiary is partnering Wayra UK on a scheme focusing on artificial intelligence-equipped healthtech startups.

GE Healthcare, a subsidiary of power and industrial technology producer General Electric, formed a UK-based accelerator yesterday with Wayra UK, an open innovation subsidiary of telecommunications company Telefónica.

Edison Accelerator will concentrate on developers of technology that brings artificial intelligence to branches of the healthcare sector such as medical imaging, oncology and patient experience. It is named after GE Healthcare’s intelligence software platform, Edison.

The initiative follows on from GE Healthcare accelerators in India and China, and the first six…