Apelon, Inc. is a privately
held software and informatics company with offices in Ridgefield,
CT. The company was created
in September, 1999 through the merger of Lexical Technology and Ontyx.
For over fifteen years, Apelon employees have led the industry
in the creation of mission-critical healthcare terminology solutions,
including:
- The largest integrated terminology knowledge base
- The first commercially available terminology server
- The first vocabulary server to pass stringent scalability and
performance testing
- The first commercially available terminology modeling system
based on Description Logic
- The first commercially available terminology modeling system
to incorporate workflow support
Apelon’s mission is to provide terminology
products and services that help healthcare enterprises create,
maintain, and use standardized healthcare terminology. Apelon’s
software engineering, bioengineering, medical informaticist, physician,
nursing and library
science staff take an integrated, cross-functional approach to
solving terminology problems using the most advanced healthcare
information
solutions available.
Apelon tools and personnel have been instrumental
in assisting major content creation efforts such as the College
of American Pathologists' SNOMED RT and CT®, the Veteran's Health
Affairs National Drug File, and the forthcoming
revision of the American Medical Association's Physicians' Current
Procedural
Terminology (CPT). Apelon products and services
have also assisted in the integration and deployment of standardized
terminology for
healthcare organizations such as Kaiser Permanente, Eclipsys
Corporation, NextGen, Oracle and Philips Medical Systems; and
biotech companies
such as Ardais, Celera Genomics, and Deltagen.
Apelon’s experience is unique in the industry.
Our recognized experts in vocabulary technology are involved in leading–edge
terminology research in collaboration with organizations such
as the Mayo Clinic, National Cancer Institute, and Stanford University.
We also have an ongoing commitment to industry leadership, actively
participating in key forums including the American Medical Informatics
Association and Health Level7.
