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| Author: | mish [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 11:42 am ] |
| Post subject: | Intro: Dave Mishler (mish) |
Hello everyone, I'm relatively new to the MUMPS language, although I have been programming since 1970 using a wide variety (even COBOL!) of languages. I currently work for a medical device company, writing safety critical real-time embedded software to control those devices. I also helped to create a healthcare informatics initiative and product line for our company. Wanting to learn more about healthcare IT, I enrolled in Northwestern University's Master in Healthcare Informatics degree program. As part of my course work, there was an introduction to this really odd language called MUMPS. As I soon found out, MUMPS is pretty amazing and has been around for a long time. The MUMPS trail eventually lead to VistA, and vxVista, and OpenVistA, and WorldVistA... And so, for the last year I've been a WorldVistA volunteer, most recently helping out with the Meaningful Use project. I look forward to learning more about MUMPS and the VistA ecosystem. |
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| Author: | toad [ Wed Feb 16, 2011 12:58 pm ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Intro: Dave Mishler (mish) |
Hi Dave and welcome to Mumpster! All of the VISTA flavors (which also includes RPMS) are very close, over 99.99% the same. Although the community has spent the last eight years diverging into these dialects, I believe we'll spend the next four reunifying back to a common core standard VISTA, to which vendors will add their proprietary extensions. As for MUMPS, it is an unusual language, which makes sense - it's the only major programming language ever specifically designed for medical software. |
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