Apelon Announces Core Clinical Knowledge Base.Business Editors/Health/Medical Writers RIDGEFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--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 Noun 1. Health and Human Services - the United States federal department that administers all federal programs dealing with health and welfare; created in 1979 Department of Health and Human Services, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson of a nationwide perpetual license for SNOMED CT(R) (see http://www.nlm.nih.gov/research/umls/Snomed/snomed_announcement.html). 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 ICD-9-CM International Classification of Disease, 9th edition, Clinical Modification A standardized classification of disease, injuries, and causes of death, by etiology and anatomic localization and codified into a 6-digit number, which allows , CPT CPT See: Carriage Paid To (R)-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(R) Concept Unique Identifiers, and will be maintained and updated as new releases of each component content become available. "We congratulate the NLM and SNOMED SNOMED Standard Nomenclature of Medical Diseases and Operations. SNOMED Systemized Nomenclature of Medicine & Veterinary Health informatics A computerized electronic vocabulary system for medical databases, which may become the standard vocabulary ," 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 This article or section needs sources or references that appear in reliable, third-party publications. Alone, primary sources and sources affiliated with the subject of this article are not sufficient for an accurate encyclopedia article. (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 TDE 1. tetrachlorodiphenylethane-a chlorinated hydrocarbon insecticide. 2. ethoglucid, an antineoplastic agent. ) software. Apelon's TDE is also used by the AMA (Automatic Message Accounting) The recording and reporting of telephone calls within a telephone system. It includes the calling and called parties and start and stop times of the call. , 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. (C)2002 College of American Pathologists. Unified Medical Language System The Unified Medical Language System (UMLS) is a compendium of many controlled vocabularies in the biomedical sciences. It provides a mapping structure between these vocabularies and thus allows to translate between the various terminology systems; it may also be viewed as a , UMLS, and Metathesaurus are registered trademarks of the National Library of Medicine. CPT is a registered trademark of the American Medical Association American Medical Association (AMA), professional physicians' organization (founded 1847). Its goals are to protect the interests of American physicians, advance public health, and support the growth of medical science. . |
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