John Olajide doesn’t spend much time in his new office. The private corner room belonging to founder and CEO of home health services company Axxess Technology Solutions is relatively bare: A few photos, awards, a desk, a couple chairs. It’s there for utility, just in case someone needs to meet in private. They’re usually someone who’s from out of town, someone who doesn’t necessarily work for the rapidly growing company.
You’ll usually find Olajide out on the floor with the rest of the employees, his things spread out on a large circular table. This is how he says he likes it: a culture where everyone feels equal and everyone is available to chat with no matter their seniority. There are private meeting rooms peppered throughout the floor, filled with furniture and other items that mimic the many countries where its employees are from.
Axxess now has more than 170 employees and this year relocated into a floor of the eight-story Tollway Plaza just south of Addison. The services it offers home health providers via cloud-based technology—payroll, scheduling, billing, patient health record documentation, data analysis, patient experience surveys—has been used in encounters for close to 1 million patients. Its homegrown technology is now in the hands of 100,000 providers in all 50 states, according to the company, and Olajide says they’re beginning to plan expanding internationally.