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APELON ANNOUNCES CORE CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE BASE
RIDGEFIELD, CT – July 1, 2003 – Apelon,
Inc., supplier of healthcare terminology software and services, today
announced its Core Clinical Knowledge Base product to facilitate
deployment of standardized terminologies in healthcare organizations.
This assembly and offering of a basic minimum content set is now
possible because of today's announcement by Health and Human Services
Secretary Tommy Thompson of a nationwide perpetual license for SNOMED
CT® (See
Announcement).
Apelon's Core Clinical Knowledge Base assists healthcare organizations
in deploying standard terminologies for health outcomes research,
electronic medical record systems and the capture, analysis and cross
correlation of clinical data. The Core Clinical Knowledge Base includes
SNOMED CT, ICD-9-CM, CPT®-4, LOINC, Apelon's Consumer Health
Terminology and all standard HL7 code sets. Additional terminologies,
including MeSH (the NLM's Medical Subject Headings) and standard
drug terminologies, are also available. Mappings between and among
the terminologies are provided by Apelon, including associations
to UMLS® Concept Unique Identifiers, and will be maintained and
updated as new releases of each component content become available.
"We congratulate the NLM and SNOMED," says Apelon President
Stephen Coady. "That there is now enough readily licensable
content to constitute a Core Clinical Knowledge Base is an indication
that the industry is making significant, practical progress toward
the requisite infrastructure for evidence-based medicine."
Apelon has played a role in many of the major government and private
initiatives to manage and deploy standardized terminologies. Apelon
has worked with the NLM on the UMLS for more than fifteen years.
The College of American Pathologists (CAP) uses Apelon tools to build
and maintain SNOMED. Kaiser Permanente, a major contributor of content
to SNOMED, uses the Apelon Terminology Development Environment (TDE)
software. Apelon's TDE is also used by the AMA, who own and maintain
CPT.
Apelon is actively engaged with the practical deployment of structured
vocabularies at the NCI, the VA, the CDC, the FDA and at leading
commercial entities such as Ardais, Eclipsys, Harris, IBM, IDX Systems,
Motorola and Philips Medical Systems.
Apelon's Core Clinical Knowledge Base will be available both embedded
in Apelon products (such as Apelon's DTS run time vocabulary server
software) and by subscription through Apelon-hosted Web Services.
About Apelon
Apelon is the world's largest supplier of medical terminology solutions.
Organizations use Apelon software to improve the quality, comparability
and accessibility of clinical and other information. Apelon provides
terminology development and maintenance software, run time vocabulary
servers, code set management, and components for clinical guideline
development and concept based indexing. Please visit us at www.apelon.com.
SNOMED and SNOMED CT are registered trademarks of the College of
American Pathologists. ©2002 College of American Pathologists.
Unified Medical Language System, UMLS, and Metathesaurus are registered
trademarks of the National Library of Medicine.
CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association.
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