During an extended hospital stay involving a loved one, Justin Rodgers watched 10–20 rotating caregivers — each arriving with no visual picture of the patient. Each one rebuilding context from scratch. Each one relying on what they thought to look for. The problem was architectural. The idea for a solution formed then. Two decades later, the technology to build it properly has arrived.
A patient was discharged after surgery on warfarin. The INR value taken at discharge was in their record. The outgoing warfarin dose was in their record. No system put them on the same surface at the same time. The prescribing physician wrote a standard protocol dose without the discharge INR in view. The patient went home anticoagulated above what their incompletely healed surgical wounds could tolerate. They bled internally. They did not survive.
VPI exists because that outcome was preventable. Not because the EHR system lacked data — it had the data. Because the data that needed to be seen together wasn't seen together. The INR and the warfarin order existed in the same record, never on the same surface at the same moment of decision.
That is the failure mode VPI is built to eliminate: not missing data, but invisible data. Information that exists and isn't seen. A clinical record that is complete — and illegible at the moment it matters most.
Multimedia technologist. Three years of intensive VPI research, architecture, and prototype development — built solo. The FHIR integration architecture, the body-mapped visualization system, the three-interface platform design, and the full working prototype are entirely his work. Sole inventor across three provisional patent applications covering twenty-four distinct embodiments. La Center, WA.
Latin for health, safety, wellbeing
The clinical mechanic: what matters surfaces without being searched for
User experience — the ux suffix is design's standard abbreviation. The platform's differentiation is the experience layer built on clinical data.
The name says it: salience, user experience, health. Three load-bearing ideas. One word.
VPI's architecture is the subject of three provisional patent applications filed with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, covering twenty-four distinct patentable embodiments across the full platform — body-mapped clinical visualization, patient-owned FHIR record architecture, care coordination, temporal care logic, and a unified AI agent architecture governing all three interfaces. Filed before any external architecture disclosure. We share the vision freely. The mechanics are protected.
"Intuitive navigation to patient-specific conditions. The pathway from patient to provider is immediately clear."
Expert validation was secured from a clinical specialist with 20 years of deep brain stimulation experience. The immediate clinical comprehension they described is exactly what VPI was designed to produce.
"One of the greatest challenges in specialty care is the time required to review years of chart notes and scattered documentation before making informed decisions. A platform that synthesizes relevant medical history and highlights key clinical trends would allow surgeons to understand a patient's condition in minutes rather than hours."
Independent validation from a nursing leader overseeing surgical specialty care. The efficiency gain she describes — hours reduced to minutes — is the primary ROI case for Saliux in procedural and specialty settings.