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Key Achievements Twenty years development with the US National Library of Medicine on the UMLS Metathesaurus Supplier of the tools and services used to maintain SNOMED CT, ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM, and NDF-RT Supplier of tools and services to national health organizations: Australia’s NEHTA, Canada Health Infoway, Hong Kong Hospital Authority, and US FDA, NCI, NCHS, SSA, VHA Leading provider of commercial health data interoperability solutions: HIEs, EMRs, biotech, and content providers
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Jack BowieSVP Sales and MarketingApelon, Inc.
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Apelon• Leading provider of healthcare terminology products and
services
• Extensive and unique experience partnering with national agencies and healthcare enterprises to improve the quality, comparability & accessibility of clinical information
• Helps organizations turn terminologies and their use into business assets
• Develop and refine mission-critical data normalization processes
Key Achievements• Twenty years development with the US National Library
of Medicine on the UMLS Metathesaurus
• Supplier of the tools and services used to maintain SNOMED CT, ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM, and NDF-RT
• Supplier of tools and services to national health organizations: Australia’s NEHTA, Canada Health Infoway, Hong Kong Hospital Authority, and US FDA, NCI, NCHS, SSA, VHA
• Leading provider of commercial health data interoperability solutions: HIEs, EMRs, biotech, and content providers
Apelon Customers and Partners
Personnel• Internationally known terminology experts• Regular contributors to industry standards, publications
and conferences
Apelon and Open Source
• After many years of commercial availability, Apelon
released the Distributed Terminology System (DTS )
vocabulary server as an open source project in April of
2007
• Since then, DTS has been downloaded over 4000 times
by organizations around the world
• Apelon supports DTS with a full range of commercial
services
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Apelon Confidential
What is DTS?
• An enterprise vocabulary server used to :
– Acquire & maintain standards
– Integrate and manage local code sets
– Map/interrelate terminologies
– Deploy in applications