Hi Mike, my respect! you put here some interesting aspects to the group.
See the veterans based kis system what is now open source (Vista - Worldvista) It is MUMPS based. Cache/M MUMPS based are mostly used in the United States. In Germany we know one system that use it too. The company is named Medos AG. At one of the first conferences HIS/RIS/PACS workshop in Giessen we Elpidio and i had some contact to the leaders of this company. (see a picture there: http://web9.gotodoc.com/gallery/album01/00000037_G ). I looked since this time a little bit at MUMPS based systems. I conected the World Vista people at Open Source Health Care Alliance OSHCA meeting that take place last year United Nations WSIS in Geneva. I meet them in Tunis again. The idea of mine is to coordinate and to do a collaboration. Do you see some possibilities? Keep attention of the analisis of the Portuguese government that was posted by Dr. Antas in a earlier mail to this list. The government there did analize World Vista and Care2x. Regards Wilfried > I just want to throw something out to the group: > > Enterprise healthcare is generally dominated by a platform called MUMPS, or > Cache (Cache is the database owned by > the company that basically bought all of the M vendors). > > Coincidentally, being a healthcare programmer, I've been using and coding > M/Cache for over 10 years. I am very > fluent, and am regarded as one of the best Cache/M coders in the country. > > The competition to Care2X (Meditech, HBOC, EPIC, IDX, etc) are M/Cache based > systems. > > If anyone on the list needs assistance converting an M based system over to > Care2X drop me a note. I can > generally write a "data ripping" application in M very quickly, and make the > data easily imported to Care2X / > MySQL.
