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BO HOLLAND · FOUNDER & CEO
The system failed them when they needed it most.
When Bo Holland’s son, Ford, came home from his freshman year at Davidson College, Bo had no idea how much their lives were about to change. What started as a simple headache soon became blurred vision, emergency room visits, and finally a diagnosis that would shake any family: a rare pineal brain tumor.
Disconnected care
None of Ford’s doctors had a complete picture of his medical history, which made it harder to give him the best possible treatment.
No personalized guidance
Bo and his family didn’t have the medical knowledge to ask the right questions or fully understand the decisions they were asked to make.
The months that followed were the hardest of their lives. Endless doctor visits, hospital stays, rounds of chemo, and radiation became their new normal. The incredible doctors and staff at Dell Children’s and MD Anderson worked tirelessly to treat Ford, and thanks to their expertise and care, Ford is cancer-free.
Bo found himself hand-carrying faxes and burning CDs just to share Ford’s records between doctors and hospitals.
It was 2013, eighteen years after the internet revolution. Despite a national push for electronic health records, the system failed them when they needed it most.
At night, Bo turned to Google and WebMD, but those sites only offered general information. They couldn’t give the family guidance that took into account Ford’s specific conditions, treatments, and circumstances.
Ford’s treatment at Dell Children’s and MD Anderson. Today, Ford is cancer-free.
Bringing AllClear to healthcare.
Bo had spent his career solving this kind of problem in other industries. He founded AllClear in 2004 to protect people’s identities, and later helped pioneer Open Banking in Europe, where secure digital identity let people share their financial information safely and instantly. He knew the technology to fix healthcare’s information problem already existed. It just hadn’t been applied there.
So he set out to bring it to healthcare. The goal was simple: people should be able to securely gather their entire medical history in one place, share it with the doctors and organizations they choose, and get personalized guidance based on their own health profile.
That vision became the AllClear network, built so people can hold, manage, and share their personal information on their own terms. Healthcare is where it started, because Bo saw firsthand what was at stake. His experience as a father facing the unimaginable still drives AllClear’s work: making it simpler, smarter, and safer for people to take control of their information and their care.