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APELON PARTNERSHIPS MARK ELEVATION TO GLOBAL LEADERSHIP
POSITION IN TERMINOLOGY CONTENT
Services Integral to Public, Private Corporate Initiatives
RIDGEFIELD, CT – June 19, 2002 – With
another partnership with a leading healthcare solutions company,
Apelon, a supplier of medical terminology software and services,
is solidifying its position as the premiere resource for tools and
services related to standardized medical terminologies. In the past
six months, Apelon has established substantial new relationships
with several more leading private corporations and public initiatives
to build, deploy, manage, and exploit current and future enterprise
healthcare vocabularies.
In recent months, Apelon has been selected to provide:
- terminology development and integration tools to Ardais Corporation,
the leading provider of clinical genomics technologies, products
and services designed to accelerate drug discovery and development;
- terminology
services and run-time deployment tools for knowledge delivery
to clinical decision makers to Eclipsys, a leader in
the deployment of advanced clinical solutions that support
the practice
of evidence-based medicine;
- a structured, standardized terminology
knowledge base to support electronic patient records for
Philips Medical Systems, a global
leader in medical products and systems;
- public safety terminology
services for Motorola's Integration Framework, a data integration
system for law enforcement
and criminal justice
entities;
- terminology components for the Institute for Medical
Knowledge Information (IMKI) development of a clinical guidelines
library
- clinical vocabulary products and expertise for
a 3 year, $9 million program to support the development of
electronic clinical
guidelines
for the U.S Department of Commerce's National Institute
of Technology's Advance Technology Program led
by IDX Systems;
- terminology products and services in support
of national programs in public health (via the CDC) and drug
terminology (with the
Veteran's Health Administration).
"Apelon has been selected to work with some of the most prestigious
organizations and corporations world-wide," says Apelon President
Stephen Coady. "We are proud that our tools and services have
been selected to work with the content these groups license and build."
Apelon's Description Logic-based modeling tools are recognized as
the "gold standard" for the creation, maintenance, and
interrogation of standardized, structured terminologies. With over
a decade's experience with clients including Kaiser Permanente, the
American Medical Association, the College of American Pathologists
(SNOMED), the Centers for Disease Control, the National Cancer Institute,
and the National Library of Medicine, Apelon has played a key role
in nearly every major clinical terminology effort. Apelon tools and
services are in use at numerous leading research, clinical and biotechnology
organizations.
About Apelon
Apelon is the world's largest supplier of medical terminology tools
and services. Organizations use Apelon software to improve the
quality, comparability and accessibility of clinical and other
information.
Apelon offers terminology development software, run time vocabulary
servers, concept-based indexing and retrieval products, and corresponding
consultant services. Please visit www.Apelon.com for
additional information.
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