Our Company
Vega Health's mission is to be the objective, trusted partner equipping health systems everywhere as they scale AI solutions that improve care and operational outcomes.


Our team has spent our careers at the intersection of healthcare, operations, and technology. We've built AI solutions in academic settings, integrated them into health organizations, watched some succeed beyond expectations, and learned hard lessons from those that didn't work as planned. We've convened C-suite strategy meetings and walked through inpatient units to understand how nurses respond to alerts. We've celebrated when a predictive model helped a care team intervene, and debugged integration issues that kept those same models from effectively reaching clinicians and front-line staff.
Those experiences taught us something fundamental: the barriers to scaling the impact of healthcare AI aren't technical. They persist because too many vendors that sell AI solutions fail to focus on the last-mile details of implementation, while innovators solving problems on-the-ground lack the right partners to maximize impact.
Health organizations today face a daunting choice. Incumbent vendors offer AI capabilities tightly integrated with their platforms: convenient, but rarely best-in-class, and almost never objectively evaluated and monitored. AI pitches appear daily in inboxes, offering "transformative" point-solutions without understanding the real challenges of healthcare implementation. Both paths lead to the same destination: significant investment with unclear value; innovation that remains siloed rather than scaled.
We founded Vega Health because health organizations deserve better.
Health organizations deserve partners who have lived their challenges. Partners who have sat through the same vendor pitches, managed the same integrations, and have been held accountable to deliver real value in a clinical setting. Partners who understand the intricacies of technical code but never lose sight of the strategic outcomes that technology should drive.
Health organizations deserve access to AI solutions that are designed to solve their problems today, regardless of where they were built or who developed them. They deserve access to solutions that have been validated and proven to work. They should be equipped with the capabilities to scale, adapt, and develop their own solutions when necessary. And they should have a pulse on the performance of their AI solutions enterprise-wide via rigorous, objective monitoring and evaluation.
Vega Health's approach is built on three beliefs:
First, that innovation in healthcare AI should come from the health organizations, practitioners, and developers closest to care. Those who understand both the opportunities and the constraints of day-to-day healthcare operations. When we source AI solutions, we source from leading health organizations and healthcare innovators, because they've built tools that work in the real world, not just in controlled studies. And, we are committed to scaling those solutions broadly.
Second, that objectivity, transparency, and accountability are non-negotiables. We have no interest in vendor lock-in or limiting choices for our partners. Our job is to help health organizations find the right solution for their strategic priorities in the now, implement solutions successfully, and prove they are working. If the best solution for a use case comes from an incumbent EHR vendor, we will be the first to inform our partners. If it doesn't, we'll help our partners find what does work, or collaborate with them to develop something new.
Third, that evaluation and continuous monitoring aren't optional. These components are critical for transforming AI from an expensive experiment into a strategic asset that improves patient care and reduces administrative burdens. Real-world performance is the only metric that matters.
This is long-term work.
Healthcare doesn't transform overnight. Vega Health is dedicated to equipping every health organization with the technology, objective expertise, and operational excellence to realize value from AI. We're here to be your partner, which means we're going to roll up our sleeves, dive into your problems together, and bring the humility that comes from having done the hard work in this industry for over a decade.
AI can help health organizations deliver better care more efficiently. But only if it's implemented thoughtfully, monitored rigorously, and scaled responsibly. That's the work we're here to do.
— The Vega Health Team

Mission
To be the objective, trusted partner equipping health systems everywhere as they scale AI solutions that improve care and operational outcomes.
Vision
To catalyze and accelerate the ability of healthcare delivery organizations to realize measurable value from best-in-class healthcare innovation at scale.
Values
Integrity & Trust
Whether engaging with customers, key stakeholders, or one another, we prioritize transparency, objectivity, and honesty - building a foundation of trust that defines not only how we operate, but how we deliver.
Accountability
We are responsible for demonstrating meaningful value, accountable for our commitments to customers and each other, and dedicated to pursuing excellence by empowering one another to be at our best.
Humble Ambition
We pursue a transformational future for healthcare while staying humble about the complexity. We take thoughtful risks to accelerate impact, grounded by experience: this is hard work, and that's why we show up.
Collaboration
Vega Health is the connective tissue enabling healthcare AI to scale. We realize this by building lasting partnerships with clients based on shared goals and technology delivering real value. Our combined expertise is our most valuable asset.
Curiosity
The work is complex and difficult, but we approach it with the creativity, curiosity, and joy that drives us to explore unconventional approaches, question our assumptions, and never accept the status quo simply because "that's the way the system works."
Who We Are

Mark Sendak, MD
After a decade developing and implementing AI/ML solutions to solve real clinical problems at the Duke Institute for Health Innovation, Mark founded Vega Health to accelerate AI innovation and lower barriers to adoption in every health system. He also co-leads the Health AI Partnership, a multistakeholder collaborative that empowers healthcare organizations to safely and effectively use AI.
Partners
We collaborate with leading organizations to advance healthcare AI innovation and adoption. Through partnerships with academic medical centers and research institutions, we ensure our solutions are grounded in rigorous science and real-world clinical evidence.
Backers
Vega Health is backed by Bessemer Venture Partners and Gundersen Health System's innovation arm, Gundersen Edge, along with a group of experienced healthcare leaders and operators who share our vision for scaling healthcare AI responsibly.