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Axial, via our last-mile open-source appliance, enables health care systems of all types--hospital systems, EHRs, lab systems, HIEs, etc.--to share data to solve key business problems. An Axial subscription gives clients 360-degree interoperability via the Axial Appliance, which stays up-to-date with the latest software, connectors and policy content via the Axial Network. Additionally, subscribers receive unlimited technical support from Axial engineers.
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our fee-for-service reimbursement system and our care delivery model are each key factors. When you take a system where suppliers create their own demand--which is what happens when physicians both diagnose and treat illness--and combine it with model where a third party picks up most of the fees, costs can rise quickly.
In terms of the care model, the physician practice and acute care hospital were designed in the early 1900s. Medical knowledge has evolved dramatically since then. Today, there are relatively inexpensive ways to treat conditions that a century ago were understood only by their symptoms. We have an opportunity to re-organize our institutions around the state of the science.
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