Apelon provides a broad range of terminology-based services to meet the needs of our diverse client base. These services, ranging from tutorials on structured vocabulary to custom terminology modeling to the provisioning of content and run-time component integration, are designed to maximize the value of our clients’ investments in health data standards.
Apelon’s services personnel – computer scientists, medical informaticists, and clinicians – are recognized experts in vocabulary technology, dedicated to providing the best healthcare information solutions available. We continuously enhance our expertise through involvement in terminology research and development of “best practices,” collaborating with research agencies and academic centers such as the US Centers for Disease Control (CDC), Mayo Clinic, US National Cancer Institute (NCI), US National Library of Medicine (NLM), Ohio State University, and Stanford University. We also have an ongoing commitment to industry leadership, participating in national and international forums including the International Medical Information Association, American Medical Informatics Association, MedInfo, HL7, ISO and the International Health Terminology Standards Development Organization (IHTSDO).
Apelon organizes its services in three areas of practice, Consulting Services, Product Services, and Content Services. Click on the links below for details on these practices.
Consulting Services – Apelon has unique expertise that can be applied to the enhancement, integration, preservation, and deployment of your existing terminology infrastructure, or to the creation of new infrastructure. Apelon's interdisciplinary consulting team applies proven expertise in terminology modeling, knowledge representation, software technologies and statistical analysis to solve customer problems. Our consultants leverage leading terminology software offerings to supply terminology content development, delivery and integration services that help you develop, manage, integrate, and utilize either national standards or your specific terminology.
Product Services - As supplier to most of the creators of national healthcare standards, Apelon is in a unique position to evaluate and recommend terminology applications and tools. We have extensive experience in tools used for advanced modeling, terminology deployment, and the creation of correspondences (mappings) between national standards and locally-defined, or legacy, terminologies, vocabularies and code sets. Our Product Services practice provides comprehensive support services for the most popular commercial and open source vocabulary tools giving the developer of healthcare applications the choice of best-in-class terminology capabilities.
Content Services – Access to up-to-date, standardized content – whether it be SNOMED CT®, LOINC®, RxNorm, NDF-RT, NIC, NOC, NANDA, ICD-9-CM, ICD-10-CM, ICD-10-PCS, CPT®, UNII or many of the other national and international terminology standards – is an absolute requirement for today’s interoperable healthcare environments. But the acquisition, formatting, loading and maintenance of these terminologies can be a major operational burden. Apelon’s Content Services practice provides complete content preparation services for healthcare applications. With an easy to use subscription distribution model for content, healthcare and biotech application developers can eliminate the cost and confusion of dealing with different terminology data structures, update schedules, and source providers. The result is easier to use, more functional applications that cost less to build and maintain.