Cyber+LE 3.0 Provides The World's Most Advanced MetaModeling Capability For Health Data and Knowledge Management.Business Editors & Health/Medical & High-Tech Writers AURORA, Colo.--(BW HealthWire)--Feb. 1, 2001 New 3.0 Version Contains the Ability to Represent Relationships of All Health, Healthcare and Healthcare Delivery Data, Global Code Sets and Local Variants Health Language Inc., the world's leading supplier of healthcare terminology tools, today announced that it has released version released version - release 3.0 of its advanced knowledge management toolset called Cyber+LE. Health Language Inc., was formed March of 2000 to address the needs of the health data supply chain by providing state-of-the-art technology for indexing, unifying and managing all healthcare information, regardless of platform, application or locale (programming) locale - A geopolitical place or area, especially in the context of configuring an operating system or application program with its character sets, date and time formats, currency formats etc. Locales are significant for internationalisation and localisation. . Its premiere product, Cyber+LE, is a software infrastructure product that standardizes the vast and often confusing number of medical and billing codes used to document patient care. This capability enables healthcare providers, researchers and payors to analyze coded patient data more quickly and accurately on an enterprise-wide basis. Additionally, Cyber+LE permits IT and application vendors to manage information virtually without regard for operating system operating system (OS) Software that controls the operation of a computer, directs the input and output of data, keeps track of files, and controls the processing of computer programs. , hardware platform or database structure through support for EJB (Enterprise JavaBeans) A software component in Sun's J2EE platform, which provides a pure Java environment for developing and running distributed applications. EJBs are written as software modules that contain the business logic of the application. and standard middleware connectivity. "This release is important because it transforms the development and use of information technology in healthcare worldwide," commented Christopher S.H. Little, Chief Marketing Officer for Health Language Inc. "Up until now, every computer application developer, manufacturer and integrator has been in two lines of business: the workflow automation See workflow. business they planned to be in and the health data modeling business they had to be in to automate healthcare workflow Workflow in healthcare is an important term for today's physicians. The workflow describes the full process of how the office and patient work with each other. From the momement the patient calls to setup and exam, to the billers working on the claims, this is all inclusive in a . Healthcare has been unique among all industries because of the intractable nature of understanding health knowledge -- it takes doctors many years to become doctors, after all -- and we have solved that problem." "Version 3.0 models all healthcare knowledge sets independently and then allows you to diagram the relationships between all of the concepts in those models," said George T. Schwend, President of Health Language Inc. "This ensures no information or knowledge is lost. Previously, everyone was required to use ULMS ULMS Unit Level Message Switch ULMS Underwater Launched Missile System ULMS Undersea/Underwater Long-Range Missile System but that was at best a flawed Rosetta Stone Rosetta Stone: see under Rosetta. Rosetta Stone Inscribed stone slab, now in the British Museum, that provided an important key to the decipherment of Egyptian hieroglyphs. because it lost significant information as you traversed codesets. For example, asthma and its related concepts in ICD ICD International Classification of Diseases (of the World Health Organization); intrauterine contraceptive device. ICD abbr. is significantly less developed than asthma in 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 and this caused significant loss in the accuracy and relevance of any outcomes analysis -- up until now, with Cyber+LE." "Our new version does more than solve a major industry inability to accurately manage health data," commented Larry V. Streepy, Chief Technical Officer of Health Language Inc., and architect of the product. "This is the first tool ever for the accurate representation of health code sets, the interior relationships and interconnections. We have also dramatically extended this so that any knowledge related to health, health care or health care delivery may also be modeled. For example, a supplier's product line set can be modeled in and related to usage now. So that pharmacy usage can now be directly correlated with ordering names from pharmaceutical firms or surgical kits can be directly related to surgery types." About Health Language Inc. Health Language Inc. is a software infrastructure company that services the healthcare industry. Cyber+LE, the company's Web-enabled product, creates a common medical index across disparate healthcare information systems, allowing for comprehensive integrated and intelligent management of all health data. Health Language, based in Aurora, Colo., is a CyberPlus Company (www.cyberplus.com). Further information on Health Language Inc is available at www.healthlanguage.com or by calling 303/307-4400. |
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