Got
Standards? What Every Group Practice Should Know about Data Standards
Stephen Coady, CEO of Apelon, discusses what group practice
executives need to know about healthcare data standards and the
role they
play in improving both care quality and business results in the
November/December 2004 issue of the Group Practice Journal. Full
article …
Why
Data Standards are Red Hot
Jack Bowie, ScD and VP of Sales & Marketing at Apelon
discusses why comprehension of the value and benefits of
standards is
critical to developing forward-thinking
requirements, making informed purchasing decisions and ultimately achieving
the business benefits of a truly integrated IT environment
in the November 2004 edition
of Advance for Health Information Executives. Full
article...
Four
Options for Implementing SNOMED
Jack Bowie, ScD and VP of Sales & Marketing at Apelon discusses four basic
application options available to Health Information Management (HIM) departments
looking to integrate SNOMED CT® into HIM operations in the July-August
2004 edition of the Journal of AHIMA. Full
article...
Speaking
the Same Language: Structured Terminologies can Enhance R&D
Efforts
David Sperzel, MD, Senior Consultant at Apelon describes how structured terminologies
can enhance pharmaceutical R&D efforts in the March/April 2004 edition
of Pharmaceutical Formulation & Quality magazine. Full
article...
ebXML
Case Study: A Clinical Guideline Registry for the SAGE Project
The SAGE project seeks to create a standards-based technology infrastructure
for computable (machine executable) clinical guidelines that can be shared
and readily deployed within different clinical information system platforms.
To help realize that vision, Apelon is developing clinical guideline registry
software based on an ebXML Registry. In this paper, Tony Weida, PhD, Vice President
Consulting Services, describes how Apelon is using its expertise in medical
terminologies and associated server technology to facilitate indexing and retrieval
of registered guidelines. Full
article...
Moving
to Fact Based Care, Healthcare Informatics Online, January 2002
The healthcare user community itself can most effectively drive implementation
of fact-based care by requiring the adoption of standardized terminology by
their IT vendors. So argues Apelon Vice President Jack Bowie, in a recent issue
of Healthcare Informatics magazine. Bowie also outlines the three primary factors
that organizations should consider in evaluating systems that offer standardized
terminology. Full
article...
Influencing
Physician Practice Variation - The future of evidence-based medicine
portends use of inormation that is cumulative and evolutionary
not static, Health Management Technology, February 2002
Stephen Coady, Apelon's President and CEO, recently discussed the critical
role of influencing physician practice variation in delivering clinical decision
support. Writing in Health Management Technology, he stresses the importance
of information that is cumulative and evolutionary, timely, and demonstrably
credible. Full
article...
