Our Story

The company was born from a passion to save lives, originally in response to reports that preventable medical errors kill more than 100,000 patients every year in U.S. hospitals. Studies show that most of these deadly errors are caused by systemic process issues, not by human performance deficiencies. In other words, broken processes were failing people.

Our Story

QI Path was born from a passion to save lives, originally in response to reports that preventable medical errors kill more than 100,000 patients every year in U.S. hospitals. Studies show that most of these deadly errors are caused by systemic process issues, not by human performance deficiencies. In other words, broken processes were failing people.

Prevention beats investigation

“QI Path was designed to help organizations step out of “react and recover” mode. Rather than focusing exclusively on the analysis of incidents after the damage is done, QI Path helps anticipate, locate and address risks before they can cause harm.

The front line knows

If you want to know where risk really resides, ask the people who work in critical processes every day. QI Path empowers front line managers and cross-functional teams to take ownership of improving operations.

A structured approach

QI Path designed its platform to bring proven systems improvement methods to the "rest of us”, providing non-engineers with a way to fail-proof plans and processes using a simple, fast and easy way to apply six sigma principles.

Proven Effective

QI Path validated its platform, the QIP system, in hospitals and clinical research settings over several years, and today works with providers, pharma companies and government agencies to make their operations safer, more efficient and deliver higher quality outcomes. Results have been remarkable; using QI Path, customers have realized reductions in quality and safety issues by more than 75%. The platform continues to evolve, employing new technologies and capabilities to exceed our customers’ goals.

Team

Jonathan Vaught, PhD

Chief Executive Officer

Jonathan is a dynamic and passionate business leader with a deep technical background and over 20 years of experience in the development and commercialization of new technologies spanning multiple industries including clinical diagnostics, food safety, and agriculture. Most recently he was CEO and Founder of a Biosciences company which was a Denver Business Journal Fast 50 small business category winner in 2020. He also helped develop and commercialize the core biomarker discovery technology behind the SomaScan platform at SomaLogic.

Tom Leifer

Founder and President

Tom has more than 30 years’ experience in technology product strategy and development, in markets that include healthcare, enterprise technology infrastructure and learning management. Over the last 20 years, he has focused on improving patient safety, clinical quality and operational efficiency in high risk healthcare settings. He designed the QI Path system to locate and eliminate vulnerabilities in mission critical operations in global enterprise environments.

Cale Bergh

Head of Development

30 years software development and systems architecture experience including at Hewlett Packard-HPQ (NYSE), Polycom (POLY).

Advisors

Tom Gfroerer

Business Development

Over 25 years leadership experience in CRO's, including PPD/Thermo.

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