National Centre for Classification in Health Selects Health Language for Modeling and Maintaining Future Releases of Australian National Standard ICD-10-AM.Business Editors & Health/Medical Writers AURORA, Colo.--(BW HealthWire)--Sept. 19, 2001 Cyber+LE Language Engine Technology to be Used for Modeling and Maintenance of Australian Modification of ICD-10 Australia's National Centre for Classification in Health (NCCH NCCH National Centre for Classification in Health (Australia) NCCH Norwegian Computing Centre for the Humanities NCCH Northern Cochise Community Hospital (Willcox, AZ, USA) ) announced today that it has selected Health Language's Cyber+LE to use for future modeling work. Health Language Inc., is a provider of the market-leading language engine technology -- a medical knowledge server -- called Cyber+LE. The NCCH manages the development and on-going maintenance of ICD-10-AM ICD-10-AM International Classification of Diseases - 10th revision - Australian Modification (International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems, Tenth Revision, Australian Modification) with support from the Australian Commonwealth Department of Health and Aged Care. "We are happy to have found a tool which will do so much for us and a company as easy to work with as Health Language," said Associate Professor Rosemary Roberts, Director of the NCCH. "We will be using Cyber+LE for modeling and maintenance of ICD-10-AM. The biennial biennial, plant requiring two years to complete its life cycle, as distinguished from an annual or a perennial. In the first year a biennial usually produces a rosette of leaves (e.g., the cabbage) and a fleshy root, which acts as a food reserve over the winter. revision, which is ICD-10-AM Third Edition, will be published in January 2002. It is scheduled for implementation by Australian users 1 July 2002." George T. Schwend, president of Health Language Inc., said, "The selection of our technology by the NCCH is truly gratifying grat·i·fy tr.v. grat·i·fied, grat·i·fy·ing, grat·i·fies 1. To please or satisfy: His achievement gratified his father. See Synonyms at please. 2. to us. We've always targeted our technology towards the commercial marketplace. It is wonderful that NCCH has selected Cyber+LE as their tool of choice. We have not only met our objective to be the best offering in the commercial or HCIT HCIT How Cool Is That? community, but we have also created a toolset powerful enough for the modeling and maintenance of national health data standards as well!" The NCCH has already begun preliminary evaluation of the alpha release See alpha version. of SNOMED-CT in conjunction with ICD-10-AM. About the NCCH The NCCH is the Australian centre of excellence on health classification theory and an expert centre in coding systems Noun 1. coding system - a system of signals used to represent letters or numbers in transmitting messages code - a coding system used for transmitting messages requiring brevity or secrecy . NCCH is the custodian bailee (custodian) n. a person with whom some article is left, usually pursuant to a contract (called a "contract of bailment"), who is responsible for the safe return of the article to the owner when the contract is fulfilled. of several other classification systems used throughout Australia and internationally. ICD-10-AM has been developed from the World Health Organization's core classification, ICD-10 through collaboration with the WHO. Visit http://www.cchs.usyd.edu.au/ncch/ for more information about the work of the NCCH. About Health Language Inc. Formed in March 2000, Health Language Inc. is a software infrastructure company that addresses the needs of the health data supply chain across healthcare 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. . Cyber+LE creates a common medical index across disparate healthcare information systems, allowing for comprehensive integrated and intelligent management of all health data. Further information on Health Language Inc. is available at www.healthlanguage.com or by calling 303/307-4400. |
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