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Press
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| Jack
Bowie |
Apelon,
Inc. |
VP,
Sales & Marketing |
jbowie@
apelon.com
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(203)
431-2530 Opt. 1, ext. 150 |
| Sandy
Cummings |
ARiA
Marketing, Inc. |
Vice
President |
scummings@
ariamarketing.com |
(617)
332-9999, ext. 210 |
APELON RELEASES FREE DESKTOP BROWSER TO ACCESS
NATIONAL STANDARD TERMINOLOGIES
Easy, Intuitive Exploration of Structured Vocabularies Used in Medical Records
RIDGEFIELD, CT – November 03, 2004 – Apelon,
provider of healthcare terminology solutions, today announced availability
of a free standalone browser for easily accessing SNOMED Clinical
Terms® (SNOMED CT®) and ICD-9-CM national standard terminologies.
This establishes Apelon as the only software vendor committed to
accelerating the adoption of national standard terminologies by offering
innovative terminology browsers at no cost.
The browser, called Mycroft, is used to examine
terminologies, navigate terminology hierarchies, see details of concepts,
search for concepts, and view relationships among concepts. SNOMED
Clinical Terms (SNOMED CT) and ICD-9-CM terminologies from the National
Library of Medicine’s (NLM) Unified Medical Language System® (UMLS®)
Metathesaurus® are included with Mycroft at no cost for use
within the United States. The Mycroft browser is available now for
download it here.
The Mycroft browser is based on the Microsoft® .NET
Framework version 1.1, a component of Microsoft Windows®. Mycroft
does not need a network connection to operate. It is intuitive and
complete right out of the box.“ Apelon hopes that this complimentary
desktop browser will encourage people to explore and better understand
standard terminologies,” said Apelon President Stephen Coady. “When
one can navigate hierarchies and view detailed attributes of a concept,
it should be easier to envision practical applications.”
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A specimen screen from the Mycroft browser shows
navigation down the SNOMED CT tree hierarchy to explore the concept “acute
necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (disorder)” in the left panel.
Concept attributes for “acute
necrotizing ulcerative gingivitis (disorder)” — synonyms, properties
(including ICD-9-CM code map), roles and associations — are shown
in the right panel. As one would expect, the information displayed is hyperlinked
whenever appropriate, and trees may be expanded or contracted.
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About Apelon
Apelon, the largest provider of medical terminology solutions, helps
leading healthcare enterprises, life sciences organizations and
government agencies to improve the quality, comparability and accessibility
of their information. Apelon offers software and professional services
for terminology development and maintenance; run time vocabulary
server deployment; and code set management. Please visit www.Apelon.com for additional information.
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Inc.
Apelon,
Inc., 100 Danbury Road, Ridgefield,
CT 06877
Voice: 203-431-2530 Fax: 203-431-2523
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