Kermanog has commercialised extended results of the EU GALEN programme: models, methods, architectures and tools for developing and implementing computerised medical terminology systems.

The main product from Kermanog is the Classification Workbench (ClaW), a toolset to support the development and maintenance of classification schemes. The ClaW can be downloaded for (time-limited) evaluation purposes and a demonstration Flash movie illustrating its use is also available. Tutorials demonstrating the use of ClaW are available on OpenGalen.

The ClaW incorporates an OpenGALEN compatible terminology server, which offers the functionality needed by client applications to browse OpenGALEN models, search for concepts, create new concepts (including composite concepts) and generate natural language strings for concepts in different languages.

The main tool in ClaW is the classification manager (ClaM) designed for 'plain' classifications such as ICD-10. ClaW also contains a GRAIL compiler and a tool (GCE) for interactive inspection/development of GRAIL models, and tools for the development and maintenance of Intermediate Representation dictionaries and concepts.

The ClaW incorporates an OpenGALEN compatible terminology server, which offers the functionality needed by client applications to browse OpenGALEN models, search for concepts, create new concepts (including composite concepts) and generate natural language strings for concepts in different languages.

The ClaW also includes the following modules:

• CBrowser (Classification Browser)
• GCE (Galen Case Environment) ("The Kermanog GCE enables the GALEN Common Reference Model to be edited, maintained and integrated with clinical applications for use in clinical practice. Although, developed primarily as a medical terminology model builder, the tool can serve as a general purpose GRAIL ontology editor.")
• Pre-compiled GALEN evaluation models
• GaTeS (a COM interface to the GALEN Terminology Server)
• GirC (for creating and maintaining ontologies)
• SPET (for defining classification concepts in a simplified representation)

ClaW in use

• The Classification Workbench was the principal software used in the development (in France) of the multi-hierarchical Classification Commune des Actes Medicaux (CCAM) - Common Classification Of Medical Procedures.
• The ClaW was also used to develop the drug ontology in the UK NHS Prodigy project.

Kermanog now maintains the OpenGALEN website. OpenGALEN is now a (Dutch) Foundation which aims to promote the results from the GALEN Programme, a series of projects supported by the European Commission. (OpenGALEN owns the GALEN GRAIL specification and the sources that form the OpenGALEN Core Reference Model.)