ECRI
SELECTS APELON TDE FOR INTERNATIONAL DEVICE NOMENCLATURE
ECRI has selected Apelon’s Terminology Development Environment (TDE)
modeling tool for ongoing development of their Universal Medical Device Nomenclature
System™ (UMDNS™). UMDNS is a standardized international nomenclature
and computer coding system for medical devices. Use of the TDE by ECRI professionals
will improve the structure and consistency of UMDNS and will enhance its interconnectivity
with other standard vocabularies. Full
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ORACLE
SELECTS APELON FOR TERMINOLOGY MANAGEMENT SOLUTION
Apelon has announced that it will provide terminology management services for
the Oracle® Healthcare Transaction Base (HTB) suite of products. Apelon
will coordinate the acquisition and integration of standard healthcare terminologies
for the Oracle HTB, and their subsequent distribution to its worldwide customers.
Apelon will also provide additional terminology consulting services to Oracle
and HTB users. Full story...
APELON
ANNOUNCES TERMINOLOGY WEB SERVICES INTEGRATED WITH MICROSOFT
INFOPATH 2003
Apelon has released TermWorks, a new web services-based terminology solution.
TermWorks enables organizations to integrate standardized terminologies in
web-based applications without the cost and resource expenditures of local
software and databases. TermWorks has been integrated with Microsoft's new
InfoPath 2003 forms solution as one example of the power of this innovative
technology. Full story...
FDA
OFFICE OF WOMEN'S HEALTH SELECTS APELON TO DEVELOP TERMINOLOGY-ENABLED
REPOSITORY FOR DRUG INFORMATION
Apelon has received a new contract funded by the Office of Women’s Health
(OWH) at the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to support the creation
of an electronic drug label repository . This repository will provide easier
access to FDA product labeling information by a broad range of drug data users. Full
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APELON
ANNOUNCES SNOMED-BASED CORE CLINICAL KNOWLEDGE BASE
Apelon congratulates the NLM and the CAP on the exciting announcement of a
national license for SNOMED CT. Building on this foundation, Apelon announces
its Core Clinical Knowledge Base (CCKB). The CCKB is a comprehensive terminology
resource containing the crucial healthcare vocabulary standards needed for
health outcomes research, electronic medical record systems, and the capture,
analysis and cross correlation of clinical data. Full
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AMA
AND APELON TO COLLABORATE ON NEW VERSION OF CPT
Apelon has entered into a joint development agreement with the American Medical
Association (AMA) for the completion of a new version of the Current Procedural
Terminology (CPT) and for co-development of associated software products. The
new version of CPT will be a more consistent and more comprehensive coding
system, supporting better capture, aggregation, and analysis of clinical procedure
data, leading to more efficient, and higher quality, patient care. Full
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APELON
AWARDED $4.7M CONTRACT FROM VA
Apelon has been awarded a $4.7 million contract by the Department of Veterans
Affairs (VA) for terminology software and services to assist the VA in the
development of an Enterprise Reference Terminology (ERT). The project which
includes Apelon's modeling and vocabulary server products, will facilitate
the transfer of patient data between and among VA Medical Centers, and increase
the compatibility of veteran health data for decision support, analysis of
treatment plans, disease surveillance, and outcomes measurement. Full
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APELON
TO MODEL ICD-10-AM
Apelon's industry-leading terminology tools and services have been selected
by the Australian National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH) for the
development of a new Description Logic based model of ICD-10-AM, the Australian
Modification of the World Health Organizations core disease classification
system. Full story...
