A New Breed Of Accelerators Helps Drive Digital Health
Executive Summary
Many digital health start-ups require more than just capital to navigate the complicated waters of the health care industry, and a new group of seed accelerators has emerged to help meet their needs. Medtech Insight interviews Healthbox director Ateet Adhikari.
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