Apelon Awarded $14.9M NLM Contract; Continues Fifteen Year Commitment to Terminology Management Expertise.Business Editors & Health/Medical/Technology Apelon, a supplier of medical terminology products and services, today announced that it has been awarded a five-year, $14.9 million contract by the National Library of Medicine (NLM Software that runs in a NetWare server. Although NetWare servers store DOS and Windows applications, they do not execute them. All programs that run in a NetWare server must be compiled into the NLM format. They are typically written in C and use Novell's libraries. ) for the maintenance and evolution of the NLM's 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 UMLS Unified Medical Language System (US National Library of Medicine) UMLS University of Michigan Law School UMLS UCLES Mailing List Service (University of Cambridge; UK) )(R) Metathesaurus(R). The NLM is a part of the National Institutes of Health. Apelon has worked with the NLM on the UMLS Metathesaurus for the past fifteen years. The Metathesaurus is the world's largest healthcare terminology database, consisting of over 2,265,000 names, 871,000 meanings, and 95 vocabularies (65 in English and 30 translations). It is used by healthcare organizations around the country in health research, electronic medical record systems, and the capture, analysis and cross correlation of clinical data. This renewal affirms Apelon's unique expertise in, and commitment to, broadly sourced medical terminology. "The UMLS Metathesaurus is a significant national asset and fundamental to improving healthcare in our country," says Apelon's President Stephen Coady. "This database is growing in importance because evidence based medicine requires a granularity of data that can only be satisfied by working with and through the many vocabularies of healthcare. Our work with the UMLS has provided us experience with and intimate knowledge of virtually every major healthcare terminology in the world." David Sherertz, SVP SVP S'il Vous Plaît (French: Please) SVP Senior Vice President SVP Schweizerische Volkspartei (Swiss People~s Party) SVP Society of Vertebrate Paleontology SVP Social Venture Partners SVP St Vincent de Paul , heads the team at Apelon that supports the NLM. "There is no single content vocabulary suitable for all applications," explains Sherertz. "The likely future is that systems developers will integrate and depend upon a collection of synergistic content sources. That is precisely what Apelon's tools and services do best." Apelon helps with the practical deployment of structured vocabularies at other federal agencies including the Centers for Disease Control, the National Cancer Institute, and the Veteran's Health Administration; as well as at leading commercial entities such as Ardais, Deltagen, Eclipsys, Harris, IBM, IDX Systems, Kaiser Permanente, Motorola, and Philips Medical Systems. Apelon's description logic based tools are also used by virtually all major content developers, including 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. (who developed the 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 codes), and 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 owns the CPT CPT See: Carriage Paid To codes). About Apelon Apelon is the world's largest supplier of medical terminology tools and services. Organizations use Apelon software to improve the quality, comparability and accessibility of clinical and other information. Apelon offers terminology development software, run time vocabulary servers, concept-based indexing and retrieval products, and corresponding consultant services. Please visit www.Apelon.com for additional information. |
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