AI governance that keeps the person in the record.

Tabatha James founded 5Q Health after more than a decade of front-line, client-centered clinical care, trained in occupational therapy, with rural and under-resourced Medicaid patients in Illinois and Tennessee. From 2019 she specialized in complex rehab technology, first evaluating people for wheelchairs and seating and later working on the supplier side, during the years when automated prior authorization and denials expanded.

The lens is occupational justice, a principle from occupational therapy: everyone has a right to take part in the everyday activities that give life meaning — working, caregiving, getting around, living at home. When an automated system decides coverage, payment, or whether a person gets the medical device or assistive technology they need, that right can be lost at scale. 5Q Health helps rural and safety-net organizations govern those systems, working alongside their counsel.

5Q Health is based in Henderson County, North Carolina, where Tabatha grew up and has returned home.

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