Why has ApexMD chosen to focus predominantly on tertiary care and academic medical centers?
ApexMD is designed to be a search tool used by patients, physicians or other medical professionals to assist them in the process of finding relevant physicians that are highly focused on specific diseases, particularly rare, potentially lethal acute or disabling chronic conditions. ApexMD has chosen to focus on profiling doctors at tertiary care or academic medical centers because, due to the nature of these centers, physicians at these hospitals are able and encouraged to become highly specialized or subspecialized on a few particular diseases or an area of emphasis within a specialty. These physicians can often be the best source for insight or a second opinion, particularly for rare or difficult-to-treat conditions. There are many highly specialized physicians that focus on one or a small number of procedures, particularly surgical procedures, that are not affilated with a tertiary care or academic medical center. We hope, in time, to add physicians from these non-tertiary care medi
