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Health Strategy & Innovation

Where expertise
meets innovation
in health.

We partner with healthcare organizations and health tech companies to design, implement, and scale strategies that transform the way care is delivered.

What we do

Five areas. One through-line: we stay through implementation.

  • Strategic Advisory
  • Clinical Systems Design
  • AI in Healthcare
  • Innovation Consulting
  • Investment Advisory & Venture Building
15+ Years of combined
clinical expertise
40+ Health organizations
served
3 Continents:
Americas & Europe
100% Expert-led
engagements

What we do

Built for complexity.
Designed for impact.

01

Strategic Advisory

Guiding health organizations through market entry, digital transformation, growth strategy, and investment decisions — with grounded, expert-led advisory.

02

Clinical Systems Design

Architecting care delivery models, clinical workflows, and health tech infrastructure that actually work in practice.

03

AI in Healthcare

Bridging the gap between the potential of AI and the reality in healthcare – translating technology into clinical workflows without displacing the clinician.

04

Innovation Consulting

Helping health tech companies bring evidence-based solutions to market — from concept to commercialization.

05

Investment Advisory

Working with investors and acquirers active in health tech — providing clinical and commercial due diligence, target evaluation, and co-investing alongside like-minded partners.

AI in Healthcare

AI is changing what
healthcare is worth.
We help you capture it.

Most healthcare organizations know AI is coming. Few know where to start, and even fewer have the internal capacity to move from awareness to action. The gap isn't technical. It's strategic and organizational.

We work with health organizations to identify where AI genuinely shifts value in their context and where it doesn't. This most often does not start in the hospital but in the operations that surround it: the administrative and financial workflows where AI can reduce costs, recover revenue, and free clinical staff to do what only they can do.

We help organizations redesign how work actually gets done: not by layering AI onto existing processes, but by rethinking those processes around what is possible through AI today. And when clinical applications are ready, we ensure they are adopted in a way that augments clinical judgment rather than bypasses it.

01

Where does AI shift value in your organization?

We map your operations to identify the highest-leverage opportunities: where AI creates measurable value fastest, and where it requires more runway.

02

How do you redesign work around AI, instead of just appending it?

We lead the organizational and process redesign that turns AI from a pilot into a structural change; with the people, governance, and workflows to sustain it.

03

How do you build an organization that leads in the AI era?

Beyond separate tools, we help health organizations evolve their operating model, by aligning structure, talent, and decision-making within a sector being fundamentally reshaped.

No commitment required — just a conversation.

Our approach

We move beyond advice.
And stay through implementation.

We don't hand over a strategy document and leave. We walk with you from the first conversation through real-world implementation.

01

Understand

We begin by listening deeply. Every engagement starts with an honest diagnostic of your organization's context, constraints, and opportunities, before any solution is proposed.

02

Design

We co-create strategies and systems tailored to your realities: clinically grounded, technically feasible, and commercially viable. No off-the-shelf templates.

03

Implement

We stay through execution. Our team works alongside yours to operationalize solutions — navigating the inevitable friction of real-world deployment with you, not from the sidelines.

04

Scale

Once proven, we help you scale what works — refining models, expanding reach, and building the internal capabilities your organization needs to grow independently.

Why Cova

Not consultants.
Partners.

We are clinicians, technologists, and strategists who have worked inside healthcare — not just around it. Our advice is grounded in real-world operational knowledge across Latin America and beyond.

We work with you — embedded in your challenges, committed to your outcomes.

Deep domain expertise

Experts with years inside clinical and health tech environments.

Latin America focus

Regional context, regulatory knowledge, and local networks.

End-to-end support

From strategy through implementation and beyond.

Outcome-oriented

We measure success by your results, not our deliverables.

Our team

Who we are.

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Melanie Cornejo

Senior Partner

PhD · Biomedical Sciences · Biology · Brain & Cognitive Sciences

PhD in Biomedical Sciences with dual degrees in Biology and Brain & Cognitive Sciences. Over 15 years as a strategy consultant across the U.S. and Latin America, Melanie has built institutions, programs, and companies from the ground up. As Provost of a newly founded Tech and Engineering University in Peru, she launched the country's first undergraduate Bioengineering program. Co-founder of Colectivo23, working to close Latin America's digital talent gap. Later, she was Head of Biomedical Research and Innovation at Auna, leading translational research and human-centered design at scale — connecting science, strategy, and organizational purpose across one of the region's largest health systems.

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Andrés Vásquez

Senior Partner

M.D., M.Sc., FACCP · Cardiothoracic Radiology, Yale University

Cardiothoracic Radiologist trained at Yale University, with clinical and operational experience across the United States and Latin America. Holds a Master's in Economics alongside his medical degree — a combination that has defined his approach: rigorous clinical thinking applied to the economics and architecture of health systems. FACCP. Early in his career, Andrés was among the first voices in the region to articulate the transformative potential of technologies then considered peripheral to healthcare — blockchain, teleradiology, artificial intelligence — long before institutional adoption made them mainstream. He went on to design and lead Latin America's first venture client model in healthcare, a structural innovation that redefined how large health organizations engage with early-stage technology companies. His work spans both sides of the Americas: building clinical infrastructure, launching health ventures, and advising organizations navigating the convergence of medicine, technology, and capital.

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Track record

A selection of initiatives
that changed the standard.

Health Tech · Blockchain · Government

Vitalpass

Co-designed Latin America's first blockchain-based COVID-19 vaccination passport, adopted by the Colombian government as the country's official immunization certificate — processing over 30 million transactions. The first initiative of its kind in the region, subsequently recognized by IATA and evaluated for integration with the EU's Greenpass system.

Colombia

Ministry of Health · 50M+ citizens

Venture Building · Corporate Innovation

WeBuild

Structured and launched the first venture client model in Latin American healthcare — a framework that connects large health organizations with early-stage startups to co-develop, pilot, and scale solutions inside the corporate environment, eliminating the gap between innovation labs and clinical operations.

Latin America

First of its kind in regional healthcare

Digital Health · Spin-off · Hospital at Home

HomeHospital

Built and spun off a fully digital hospital-at-home service from one of Latin America's largest healthcare companies — delivering acute inpatient-level care in the patient's home through technology, remote monitoring, and coordinated clinical teams. A model that redefined what hospital care can look like outside four walls.

Latin America

Spin-off · Large health system

Get in touch

Let's build something
meaningful.

Whether you're a healthcare organization navigating transformation or a health tech company entering new markets — we'd like to hear from you.

contact@covahealth.com
LinkedIn — Cova Health Partners

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