Open Health Tools

Membership Presentation

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