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John Olajide,Winnner of D CEO’s
Achievement In Technology, Is Growing
Home Health
12/16/2014 | by Matt Goodman | Share Post
Few industries are as critical to the vibrancy of North Texas as healthcare. The sector
adds more than $52 billion to the local economy each year and supports at least
600,000 regional jobs.
It’s also tough to find a field with a more virtuous mission; after all, healthcare
companies and workers are in the business of improving and saving lives. We think
that’s worth a little recognition.
D CEO’s new Excellence in Healthcare Awards—produced in partnership with our
online news site, D Healthcare Daily—honor industry executives, practitioners,
innovators, researchers, and others who stand out in their fields. The inaugural
program attracted more than 180 nominations. From that group, D CEO editors
selected 30 finalists and winners in 11 categories. We’re pleased to tell you about them
over the coming days.
Achievement in Medical Devices/Technology: John Olajide, president and
CEO of Axxess Technology Solutions, Inc.
Sometimes all it takes to change one’s life is a little curiosity. While running an errand
one day some years ago, John Olajide, then a telecommunications engineering student
at the University of Texas at Dallas, discovered that a home health agency where his
aunt was nursing director lacked a network to link all of its computers. Olajide, a
Nigerian native and computer lover, got the boss to pay him to enable all the agency’s
computers to talk to each other.
Thus began a journey for Olajide, now 33, that resulted in the 2009 creation of Axxess
Technology Solutions Inc. The Dallas company provides a range of software over the
Internet that helps automate many of the administrative chores that home health
agencies once had to do on paper. Among them: taking care of medical records,
finances, human resources, scheduling, and communications with physicians. Axxess’
technology even helps prevent fraud, a major issue in the home health industry.
Taking care of all that, in turn, enables those businesses to spend more time on
patients, resulting in the provision of better healthcare.
With revenue doubling yearly and zero debt, Olajide’s biggest problem is handling
Axxess’ rapid growth. At press time, Olajide was planning to move the company
headquarters into a larger, 25,000­square­foot space that he says may already be too
small. (Luckily, he’s got right of first refusal on additional space within the larger
facility.)
Olajide has plans to add another 100 people to Axxess’ 120­person staff. He also has
hired investment bankers to seek additional capital for the business. “We’re growing so
fast, sometimes running a business feels like sitting on a rocket,” he says.
—Jeff Bounds
FINALISTS: AMPCARE, CARILOOP
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