| Jack
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Apelon,
Inc. |
VP,
Sales & Marketing |
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apelon.com
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(203)
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APELON ANNOUNCES TERMINOLOGY SERVER SUPPORT FOR INTERSYSTEMS TECHNOLOGY
Support enhances availability of open source terminology server solution
Ridgefield, CT, November 10, 2008 – Apelon, Inc., a leading provider of terminology and data interoperability solutions, today announced that its open source Distributed Terminology System (DTS) terminology server now supports multiple software products from InterSystems Corporation.
DTS is a comprehensive terminology server platform that that centralizes terminology knowledge (such as HITSP national standards SNOMED CT®, LOINC®, RxNorm® and NDF-RT®) and provides terminology services (such as normalization, lookup, translation, and aggregation) to other network applications. DTS enables the management of industry standards, local vocabularies and their associated mappings within EMRs, CPOEs, and decision support systems.
InterSystems is a leading provider of software for connected healthcare. Support for DTS terminology and mapping capabilities will be provided for the InterSystems CACHÉ® high-performance object database, InterSystems Ensemble® rapid integration and development platform and InterSystems HealthShare™ platform for regional and national electronic health records.
Open source licensing models have become increasingly common in today’s software market. Open source applications such as the Department of Veterans Affairs' CACHÉ-based VistA® electronic medical record system have enabled healthcare organizations to reduce dependence on proprietary software, leverage the development expertise of all licensees, and reduce the cost of deploying enterprise applications. The leading commercial vocabulary server for many years, DTS was made open source in May of 2007. Since then, it has been downloaded over 1500 times by organizations worldwide.
“Making DTS open source has helped many entities render health data more comparable,“ said Stephen Coady, Apelon’s President and CEO. “When that’s commonplace, the much anticipated economic benefits of health information technology will be realized. By partnering with InterSystems we are able to bring semantic interoperability to a much broader community of healthcare enterprises”.
"We are very pleased that Apelon is adding support for InterSystems technologies to its DTS terminology server," said Paul Grabscheid, InterSystems Vice President of Strategic Planning. "Ongoing enhancement of standards-based data sharing and terminology management is key to enabling the connected healthcare initiatives that are critical to achieving cost-effective, quality care delivery."
For further information on DTS visit apelon-dts.sourceforge.net.
About Apelon
Apelon is an international clinical informatics company focusing on data standardization and interoperability. Apelon helps leading healthcare enterprises, life sciences organizations and government agencies improve the quality, comparability and accessibility of their information. Apelon offers solutions and professional services for terminology development, management, mapping and deployment. Visit www.Apelon.com for additional information.
About InterSystems
InterSystems Corporation is a global software product company with headquarters in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and offices in 23 countries. InterSystems provides innovative products that enable fast development, deployment, and integration of enterprise-class applications. InterSystems CACHÉ® is a high performance object database that makes applications faster and more scalable. InterSystems Ensemble® is a rapid integration and development platform that enriches applications with new functionality, and makes them connectable. InterSystems HealthShare™ is a platform that leverages existing healthcare applications to rapidly create regional or national electronic health records. InterSystems DeepSee™ is software that makes it possible to add embedded real-time business intelligence in transactional systems, enabling better operational decisions.
InterSystems is the world’s #1 vendor of database and integration technologies for healthcare applications. InterSystems products are used by thousands of hospitals and labs, including all 19 hospitals on the Honor Roll of America's Best Hospitals as rated by U.S. News and World Report. For more information, visit InterSystems.com.
