Apelon Partners With InterSystems
[November 2008] Apelon has announced that the open source Distributed Terminology System (DTS) terminology server now supports multiple software products from InterSystems Corporation. Support for DTS terminology and mapping capabilities will be provided for the InterSystems CACHÉ® high-performance object database, InterSystems Ensemble® rapid integration and development platform and InterSystems HealthShare™ platform for regional and national electronic health records. Full story …
APELON PARTNERS WITH INTEL FOR INTEROPERABILITY
[April 2008] Apelon's terminology asset management platform, consisting of the Distributed Terminology System (DTS) platform, TermWorks mapping software, and associated data mapping, consultation and terminology update services, has been validated as a certified ecosystem component of the Intel® SOA Expressway for Healthcare, a software solution that provides an efficient way to exchange healthcare information within hospitals across health information networks. The Intel solution is based on a Services-Oriented Architecture (SOA) and utilizes Apelon’s terminology component to provide controlled medical vocabulary translation for healthcare messages using industry standard terminologies, and enables the management of industry standards, local vocabularies and their associated mappings. Full story...
APELON PROVIDES TERMINOLOGY BROWSER TO NEW ZEALAND HEALTHCARE ORGANIZATIONS
[April 2008] Apelon and the New Zealand Ministry of Health have agreed to make Apelon's Mycroft free multi-terminology browser available to healthcare organizations based in New Zealand. New Zealand is a charter member of the IHTSDO and Mycroft will give New Zealanders easy desktop browsing and search access to the latest versions of SNOMED CT. New Zealanders wishing to use Mycroft can register here.
CENTER FOR INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY INNOVATIONS IN HEALTHCARE (CITIH) SYMPOSIUM
[Dec 2007] Apelon participated as a member of a roundtable expert panel at the Center for Information Technology Innovations in Healthcare (CITIH) Symposium held at Ohio State University. This panel addressed the current state of development in grid-computing and semantic interoperability from the academic and industry perspectives, with a particular emphasis on academic – industry collaboration.
ENTERPRISE DATA STRATEGY AS A REQUISITE TO GROWTH
[Dec 2007] Spectrum Health is a growing integrated healthcare organization that combines inpatient care with world-class treatment centers, a primary care network, basic and translational research center, and a regional health plan. They have identified that data incomparability from different systems using different data feeds limits their ability to provide consistent, accurate clinical analysis and targeted decision support. Apelon was engaged to review the current processes, challenged to devise a plan to integrate all the data, and asked to produce a workable solution to implement the plan without disrupting ongoing operations.
ALBERTA HEALTH AND WELLNESS (AHW) CLINICAL VOCABULARY INITIATIVE
[Nov 2007] Apelon has teamed with Sierra Systems Group to define functional requirements of terminology services for the Alberta Health and Wellness (AHW) Clinical Vocabulary Initiative. This activity will enhance Alberta Netcare EHR interoperability, defining requirements for integration, maintenance and use of common vocabularies. The project focus is improved patient care. It will engage stakeholders from across Alberta and be aligned with other standards activities within Alberta and of the Canada Health Infoway.
THE AMERICAN DENTAL ASSOCIATION'S SNODENT PROJECT
[Oct 2007] The American Dental Association (ADA) recognizes that dental patient records are an integral part of a complete medical record. In recognition of the challenges involved, the ADA has engaged Apelon to act as lead consultant in a critical first step, the normalization of dental data. Apelon has conducted an analysis of current SNODENT with respect to good terminology practices. The result of this analysis will help the ADA enhance the SNODENT terminology to bring it into compliance with the current thoughts on best terminology practices.
INFORMATION WAREHOUSE MINING PROJECT USING CONCEPT-BASED QUERIES
[Oct 2007] Data Warehouses contain significant potential knowledge. The difficulty lies in extracting usable information. In close collaboration, Apelon, Ohio State University’s Information Warehouse, and Ohio State University’s Department of Biomedical Informatics are engaged in a project to combine standard terminologies, local vocabularies, data normalization, and meta models within an enterprise-strength vocabulary server. This will permit users to create straightforward queries that can extract data from disparate sources across the entire information warehouse.
APELON DTS NOW OPEN SOURCE
Apelon has placed its Distributed Terminology System (DTS) software in SourceForge as an open source project. DTS is already the most widely used healthcare vocabulary server in the industry. Apelon hopes that this action will accelerate even faster the adoption of standards in clinical applications. Apelon will continue to offer comprehensive content and support services for DTS. Full story …
