Ah yes, MUMPS. I have some history around that one. It haunts me. Poor Haiti.
Kirby On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 7:54 PM, Edward Cherlin <echer...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 04:34, kirby urner <kirby.ur...@gmail.com> wrote: >> I like to see universities taking the lead in some way... >> (they call it "non-commercial"), eating their own dog food. >> >> Same thing with hospitals. They seem to not want to >> develop much inhouse, even for research -- or maybe >> I've not been inside the right hospitals? You'd think >> the open source ethic and health care would be more >> hand in glove. > > MUMPS (Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming > System), now sometimes just M, is the basis for the VA and DoD > hospital systems. it was taken to Free Software via the Freedom of > Information Act, and is now available as openVistA. This is a full > medical system suite, with more than 200 modules for imaging, medical > records, billing, pharmacy, and so on. M is unusual among programming > languages for including its own database engine. Its more recent > competitor is OpenMRS (Open Medical Records System) being developed > for Partners in Health in Haiti and other such organizations. Harvard > has a hand in its development. > >> Kirby >> >> PS: I came across this useful discussion on Dr. Chuck's blog >> (he posts here sometimes -- we met at Pycon2009 in >> Chicago). >> >> Reading: >> http://scholarworks.umass.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1000&context=opensource >> _______________________________________________ >> Edu-sig mailing list >> Edu-sig@python.org >> http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig >> > > > > -- > Edward Mokurai (默雷/धर्ममेघशब्दगर्ज/دھرممیگھشبدگر ج) Cherlin > Silent Thunder is my name, and Children are my nation. > The Cosmos is my dwelling place, the Truth my destination. > http://www.earthtreasury.org/ > _______________________________________________ Edu-sig mailing list Edu-sig@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/edu-sig