1. Open Health Tools Membership Presentation Jack Bowie SVP Sales and Marketing Apelon, Inc. 1

2. 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

3. 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

4. Apelon Customers and Partners

5. Personnel Internationally known terminology experts Regular contributors to industry standards, publications and conferences

6. 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 6

7. 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