Apelon Introduces Support for MySQL Within its Distributed Terminology System

Open source software solutions have always been received by users with a warm welcome. The flexible architecture and cross compatibility offered by these solutions allow users to leverage professional performance at relatively lower or sometimes zero costs.

Apelon, Inc., an international clinical informatics company focusing on data standardization and interoperability, has announced the support of the open source MySQL database system within its open source Distributed Terminology System or ‘Open DTS’ (News - Alert) terminology server. It will enable the healthcare industry to leverage a comprehensive open source solution for managing and deploying healthcare data standards.

The company offers a range of software and professional services that allow healthcare enterprises, life sciences organizations and government agencies to enhance the overall quality, comparability and accessibility of their information.

Interoperability techniques and technologies have been playing a key role regarding the ever growing demand for data sharing within the healthcare sector. A large number of enterprises don’t want to attach their vital data capabilities to proprietary applications, which might lead them to remain locked with those solutions.

Leveraging various open source solutions such as DTS and MySQL, these healthcare organizations can remain independent of proprietary software solution. It considerably cuts down their overall cost of deploying enterprise applications and offers cost-effective licensing models to them; apart from avoiding vendor-specific integration issues. Further, using the open source solutions, healthcare organizations can benefit from the offerings of a much wider array of developers.

DTS solution by Apelon had been made open source in 2007, which also established the company as an avid supporter of the open source software platform. More than 3500 informaticists and healthcare organizations across the globe have downloaded the Open DTS solution since then, which complies with a number of commercial database platforms as well.

Some of them are DB2, InterSystems Cache, Oracle (News - Alert) and SQL Server. As the solution has begun supporting the open source MySQL, enterprises will be able to leverage the advantages of Open DTS as a comprehensive open source terminology solution, enjoying lower costs and facing fewer integration and adoption issues.

“Apelon has helped many healthcare organizations render health data more comparable, leading to increased data sharing and broader access,” commented Stephen Coady, president and chief executive officer at Apelon. “By supporting MySQL we enable the use of sophisticated terminology tools without requiring the user to significantly burden the database management system resources of an organization. This Open DTS upgrade is another example of our commitment to the open source model. Apelon is thrilled to be enabling interoperability initiatives, because care records, combined and comparable, will dramatically improve quality and lower cost.”

In October 2011, Apelon, Inc. announced the availability of its first comprehensive, cloud-based terminology mapping solution. TermManager, a code set management and collaborative mapping application, cost-effectively supports healthcare data interoperability initiatives by enabling widespread access to national healthcare vocabulary standards including SNOMED CT, LOINC, ICD, RxNorm and NDF-RT.

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