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COMMERCE DEPARTMENT FUNDS NATIONAL HEALTHCARE PROJECT
Apelon to Assist Development of System for Sharing 'Best Practices'
RIDGEFIELD, CT – January 29, 2002 – Apelon,
Inc., the world's largest supplier of medical terminology software
and services, has been selected to provide clinical vocabulary products
and expertise for another national healthcare project.
Funded by the U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of
Technology's (NIST) Advance Technology Program, the three-year, $9.2
million grant will support research to create and distribute electronic
clinical guidelines-also known as "best medical practices".
The project is led by IDX Systems (Nasdaq: IDXC), with Apelon, Intermountain
Health Care, Mayo Clinic, Stanford University, and University of
Nebraska as research partners.
Stanford, Mayo, IHC and the University of Nebraska will provide
clinical and academic expertise in the development of guideline models
and knowledge representation. Apelon, which specializes in the application
of structured medical vocabularies to clinical information systems,
will provide software and services to assist in the development and
deployment of the guideline knowledge.
"Apelon focuses on some important practicalities of what is
needed to develop, disseminate, and benefit from guidelines," said
Stephen Coady, CEO of Apelon.
NIST's Advanced Technology Program provides cost-shared funding
to advance particularly challenging research and development projects
with the potential to spark important, broad-based economic or social
benefits for the United States. To see the full NIST release, click
here.
About Apelon
Apelon is the world's largest supplier of medical terminology tools
and services. 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. Corporate Web site: www.Apelon.com.
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