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APELON, LGA FORM STRATEGIC ALLIANCE
Apelon To Supply Medical Terminology to The Research Place™ Platform
For Life Sciences Research
RIDGEFIELD, CT – October 18, 2001 – Apelon,
the world's largest supplier of medical terminology software and
services, and LGA, Inc., the leading provider of research and resource
management solutions, has announced a strategic alliance in support
of The Research Place™, a web-enabled research tool for commercial
researchers in the life sciences.
The Research Place™ grew out of an earlier collaboration between
Apelon and LGA with the National Cancer Institute linking all federally
funded cancer researchers to a single platform to facilitate information
exchange and therapeutic innovations. The project was so successful
that LGA decided to offer a similar common venue to life science
professionals researching commercial applications.
"We are pleased that Apelon's technology will be used to power
the collaborations and advances of life science professionals," said
Apelon's President Stephen Coady. "LGA is providing the single
platform and Apelon the common terminology so that various disciplines
may better talk to and learn from each other."
Apelon's server technology and clinical knowledge base provide the
terminology foundation for The Research Place™. The Apelon
knowledge base is an integration of the most popular healthcare vocabularies,
structured on underlying clinical concepts represented rather than
explicit names. Thus, articles on the disease Rubella may be located
and related by the terms like Rubella, German measles, three-day
measles, etc.
"By providing common vocabularies within a single venue, The
Research Place™ gives researchers the ability to retrieve,
organize, categorize, analyze and share both source materials and
finished products," said Lynne Gilfillan, CEO of LGA. "We
are hopeful that this type of collaborative effort among life science
researchers will speed scientific advances and hasten innovative
products to the market."
LGA was recently recognized by the Small Business Administration
with a Tibbetts Award, the nation's highest recognition for small
businesses, for its excellence in developing and executing innovative
small business research projects.
About Apelon
Apelon is the world's largest supplier of medical terminology tools
and services. Leading healthcare organizations use Apelon software
to improve the quality, comparability and accessibility of clinical
information. Apelon offers terminology development software, run
time vocabulary servers, concept-based indexing and retrieval products,
and corresponding consultant services. The privately held company
has offices in Ridgefield, CT. and Alameda, CA. Corporate Web site:
www.Apelon.com.
About LGA
LGA provides an integrated contextual knowledge management solution
that makes business decisions easier through a single approach
to business intelligence by providing better information searches,
smarter information handling processes, more focused analyses capabilities,
and effortless information sharing. Its world-class software solution,
The Research Place™, is a virtual assistant for life science
researchers, giving them the ability to retrieve, organize, categorize,
analyze and share both source materials and finished products seamlessly
and systematically. The Research Place™ integrates Apelon's
Vocabulary Server technology to provide a robust clinical terminology
framework for advanced research support and collaboration.
For additional information, visit LGA at www.TheResearchPlace.com or call 866-430-4467.
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