In 2007, the founder of Your Data Health lost his wife seven days after she delivered their third daughter, due to mistakes made by hospital staff. Rather than walk away from healthcare, he joined it to help make a difference and prevent this from happening to others.

In 2010 he joined Providence then Opala and combined has spent the last 16 years building the clinical safety systems that prevent the failure that killed his family: MEWS (Modified Early Warning Score) and real-time SEPSIS alerting at Providence Health System, validated in Epic, now standard of care. A Defect Prevention Governance framework that secured $13 million in annual risk avoidance with zero critical defects introduced into production over fifteen years.

TAP is the engineering distillation of that work. Patient data ownership, privacy, and control are not abstract regulatory concerns. They are a moral commitment, rooted in lived experience, applied as testable artifacts.