Stanford Health Care partners GE Ventures on Evidation Health, a big data startup with eyes on digital health.

Evidation Health has been launched out of a partnership between Stanford Heath Care and GE Ventures, the corporate venture capital arm of General Electric, with $6m funding.

Backers in Evidation’s venture round include GE Ventures, Rock Health Seed Fund, and Asset Management Ventures, and will be based at GE Venture’s Menlo Park incubator.

The company is looking to use big data to validate products and services in the digital health sector. The rapidly growing sector, which spans healthcare apps to…