Healthcare innovation & strategic advisory
Advisory at the convergence of healthcare, technology, and capital.
Vertex Health Partners advises the companies, investors, and health systems shaping the sector — combining clinical and technical judgment with a network that spans the ecosystem.
Why Vertex
The unique mix of clinical, technical, and commercial judgment.
Vertex Health Partners was founded by former AWS healthcare executives — physicians who have also built and exited companies, run healthcare strategy at platform scale, and invested across the sector. We work hands-on across health systems, payers, federal health, and the investor community, bringing an operator’s judgment to every engagement.
Clinically grounded
Experienced clinicians
Years of hands-on practice across pediatric hospital medicine, clinical informatics, and neuroradiology — clinical judgment that still lands at the point of care.
Built at scale
Technology & AI
Cloud, data, AI, and product strategy proven inside the world’s largest technology platforms — and applied everywhere from startups to enterprises.
Operators & founders
Built and exited
Companies built and taken through exit; innovation programs and accelerators stood up from scratch.
Across the ecosystem
Startups to enterprise
From earliest-stage startups and investors to federal agencies, health systems, and life-science enterprises — one integrated perspective across all of it.
Leadership
The partners

Adam Glasofer, MD
Former Global Head of Healthcare VC & Startups, AWS · Pediatric Hospitalist · Former Chief Innovation Officer & CMIO

Adam Glasofer, MD
Former Global Head of Healthcare VC & Startups, AWS · Pediatric Hospitalist · Former Chief Innovation Officer & CMIO
A physician, healthcare innovation leader, and former health system executive with a track record of leading large-scale change — from early-stage startups to big-tech enterprises. Before founding Vertex Health Partners, Adam was Global Head of Healthcare for Venture Capital & Startups at AWS, where he created the AWS Healthcare Accelerator. Earlier, as Chief Innovation Officer and CMIO at Virtua Health, he founded its telehealth program and Center for Innovation.
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Adam Glasofer is a physician, healthcare innovation leader, and former health system executive with demonstrated success in leading large-scale change within and across organizations, from early-stage startups to big tech enterprises.
Before founding Vertex Health Partners, Adam was the Global Head of Healthcare for Venture Capital and Startups at Amazon Web Services. In this role, he created the AWS Healthcare Accelerator program and led a team of healthtech experts focused on driving the adoption of startups with healthcare customers around the world. Prior to Amazon, Adam was Chief Innovation Officer and Associate Chief Medical Information Officer at Virtua Health, where he founded both Virtua’s telehealth program and Center for Innovation.
A pediatric hospitalist by training, Adam practiced clinical medicine for 15 years, working as part of the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia at Virtua group in a pediatric emergency department. He is board certified in both Pediatrics and Clinical Informatics and has a Master of Science degree in Health Informatics. Today, he leverages his clinical, operational, strategy, implementation, and innovation experience to create impact for a wide-reaching portfolio of clients that includes health systems, enterprises, investors, startups, nonprofits, accelerators/incubators, and government agencies.

Jared Saul, MD
Former Global Chief Medical Officer, AWS · Neuroradiologist · Serial Founder · Investor

Jared Saul, MD
Former Global Chief Medical Officer, AWS · Neuroradiologist · Serial Founder · Investor
A physician, technologist, entrepreneur, and operator working at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and capital. A neuroradiologist by training, Jared has founded and led multiple companies through exit and invested across the sector. Prior to Vertex Health Partners, he served as Chief Medical Officer at AWS, where he built healthcare and life-science strategy at platform scale, and today advises on AI strategy, cloud and data infrastructure, commercialization, and corporate development.
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Jared Saul is a physician, technologist, entrepreneur, and operator working at the intersection of healthcare, technology, and capital. A neuroradiologist by training and practice, Jared has founded and led multiple companies through exit and invested across the sector. Prior to Vertex Health Partners, he served as Chief Medical Officer at Amazon Web Services (AWS), where he built healthcare and life-science strategy at platform scale.
Today, Jared advises investors and companies on technology and AI strategy, cloud and data infrastructure, commercial and reimbursement strategy, partnerships, innovation, and corporate development.
What we do
Where we go to work.
Four areas where our clinical, technical, commercial, and investment perspective changes the outcome — from strategy through execution.
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Strategy & Growth
AI and digital-health strategy, health-system transformation, and federal and government programs — through commercialization, reimbursement, go-to-market, and the M&A that carries it forward.
02
Technology, AI & Product
Product and technology roadmaps from first concept to enterprise deployment — evaluating AI and emerging technology and modernizing the cloud, data, and infrastructure underneath.
03
Ecosystem & Partnerships
Strategic partnerships across providers, payers, enterprise, and the public sector — hyperscaler relationships, advisory boards, accelerators, and the innovation programs that turn ideas into adoption.
04
Investment & Innovation
Fund thesis and sector mapping, diligence and IC-ready memos, and hands-on portfolio, operator, and board support for capital partners and founders.
How we work
Engagements that fit the moment.
Start small and scale up, or bring us in for a defined deliverable. Every model is built to fit how your team actually works.
Fixed Fee
Strategy exploration & assessment
A standalone, one-time session that can convert into ongoing advisory.
Fixed fee · timeline
Scoped project or diligence
A defined deliverable on a fixed fee and fixed timeline — a natural entry point for a new relationship.
Ongoing
Monthly retainer
An embedded operator and advisor inside your team — our default for multi-quarter, cross-functional work.
Standing role
Advisory or board service
A standing advisor or independent-director relationship.
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