| Jack Bowie |
Apelon, Inc. |
VP,
Sales & Marketing |
jbowie@
apelon.com
|
(203)
431-2530 Opt. 1, ext. 150 |
| Brenda Foster |
Healthwise, Inc. |
|
bfoster@
healthwise.org |
(208) 331-6963 |
| Andrea
Mace |
Satori
Communications, Inc. |
|
amace@satori
communications.com
|
(408)
260-1717 |
HEALTHWISE TO ADVANCE INFORMATION THERAPY WITH APELON
TECHNOLOGY
Apelon's Concept-Based Indexing and Retrieval Suite to
Help Healthwise Clients Deliver the Right Information to the Right
People at the Right Time
RIDGEFIELD, CT – February 5, 2001 – Apelon,
Inc., the leading supplier of health care terminology tools and services,
will provide its Concept-Based Indexing and Retrieval technology
to Healthwise, Incorporated, so that it can support the Information
Therapy capabilities of its Web content clients. Healthwise will
index every Healthwise® Knowledgebase topic to clinical concepts
and industry-standard vocabularies, including billing codes, to make
it easier for physicians and health information systems to send people
the information they need to make better health decisions. The indexed
Healthwise product is the first of its kind and will be available
this summer.
The explosive growth of the Internet and an associated thirst for
health information by consumers have placed significant demands on
Web portals and health care content developers to provide easier,
more effective access to information. Apelon's Concept-Based Indexing
and Retrieval software addresses this issue, allowing information
providers to index health care-related topics and documents more
effectively and automatically, facilitating the timely identification,
retrieval, and distribution of relevant content.
According to Donald W. Kemper, chairman and CEO of Healthwise, individually
targeted Information Therapy advances the Healthwise mission of helping
people make better health decisions. The company is developing new
strategies to connect people with information at the time they need
it in order to improve the quality and reduce the cost of their health
care. "Information is powerful medicine," said Kemper, "and
Apelon technology makes it even more powerful. The Healthwise Knowledgebase-with
Apelon indexing and search features-will unlock new business opportunities
for e-health companies looking to add more value to health care.
Our new intelligent health content is worthy of information prescriptions
by doctors to their patients."
The Healthwise Knowledgebase contains in-depth, reliable, and up-to-date
information on 1,900 health problems, 600 medical tests and procedures,
900 alternative medicine topics, 500 support groups, and 3,000 drug
therapies; it is a key resource for deciding when health care services
are necessary and which ones to select. More than 20 million families
access Healthwise information each year through Web content, nurse
call center resources, and self-care guides.
"Receiving an order from a company of Healthwise's stature,
which has such exacting standards, highlights the strength of our
proprietary technology," said Stephen Coady, president and CEO
of Apelon. "We look forward to helping Healthwise achieve their
goal of helping health care organizations to deliver the right information
to the right individual at the right time."
Apelon will display its Concept-Based Indexing
and Retrieval software at the Healthcare Information Management & Systems Society
(HIMSS) 2001 Conference and Exhibition February 4-8, at the Ernest
N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Booth #4424.
About Healthwise
Healthwise, Incorporated, is a nonprofit
organization that creates Prescription-Strength InformationTM resources
to help consumers make
better health decisions with their doctors. More than 20 million
families have access to Healthwise information every year through
handbooks, Web content, and nurse call center resources. Nine of
the top ten managed care companies, as described in the November
2000 issue of Managed Healthcare, choose Healthwise. Other customers
include self-insured employers, government agencies, and e-health
companies. Healthwise information is the foundation of self-care
programs in the United States, South Africa, Canada, and the United
Kingdom. More information is available at www.healthwise.org or
1-800-706-9646.
About Apelon
Apelon, Inc. is a privately held software company with
offices in Ridgefield, Connecticut, and Alameda, California. Apelon
helps health
care enterprises improve the comparability and accessibility of their
clinical information. Apelon offers terminology development, run
time vocabulary servers, and concept-based indexing and retrieval
products as well as corresponding consulting services. Our customer
list includes leading health care organizations, such as the National
Library of Medicine, SNOMED, the National
Cancer Institute, the American
Medical Association, the British
National Health Service, Kaiser-Permanente,
and internet-based entities such as adam.com, Definity
Health, Medem,
and WellMed. Whether maintaining a structured terminology, developing
patient record applications, or delivering content over the web,
Apelon's products and services help enterprises connect their customers
to the information they need. For further information, please visit
www.apelon.com.
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