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by pram 2947 days ago
Learn MUMPS and move to Wisconsin.
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Is MUMPS still a thing :-) maybe I ought to dust of my RT-11 / FORTRAN skills off
The biggest EMR company was Epic and uses Mumps [0]. However, they are losing share to Center and others [1], so this formula will only work for a little while longer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13860937

[1] https://ehrintelligence.com/news/cerner-epic-mckesson-among-...

Epic still dominates the EHR space.

They have deployments slotted for 3 years.

If you have ever worked with epic, they offer "managed" solutions, which you either do the epic designed way, or don't go epic... They have enough market share and business to dictate how things will work in a hospital env