[killjoywashere]

In case anyone is wondering why anyone should give a shit about this language, the relevance of MUMPS is that the largest market share holder of EHR systems is Epic, and their core database still runs on MUMPS.

You life, quite literally if you find yourself in a hospital, depends on MUMPS.

The second largest competitor, Cerner/Oracle Millenium, runs on MSFT SQL, and it's on life support. Last I heard, Oracle was looking to unload it.

[emj]

Millennium has a streak of failed implementations lately, VA in the US, two here in Sweden. It is not just Millennium I believe health care providers are pretty bad at tech.

[killjoywashere]

I don't know about the Sweden saga, but the VA saga is a deep rabbit hole. I helped build a dream team of companies at one point to fix part of this for another system at one point, and the integrator fell down under their own weight.

I thought I was going into informatics to write code. It's politics as far as the eye can see.

[Suppafly]

There are several other EHRs that use MUMPS too.

[benj111]

>on life support

Intentional?