Hi, mratsin. I am not talking about writing a MUMPS interpreter in Nim. Every physician has access to the official MUMPS. In fact, every physician in the United States starts his/her medical residency with MUMPS and CCL. Besides, the physician needs to take a high stakes test, USMLE step 2 Clinical Skills, where s/he feeds many EHR and EMR into a Cerner or Epic database. The problem is that MUMPS is a computer language that appeared in 1966. It is very old. Basically, MUMPS is a database language, i.e., a MUMPS program insert records into an Epic database, or retrieve information from the Epic database. What I am proposing is to use Nim to retrieve records from Epic database. In fewer words, I would like to liberate physicians from this very old language that is MUMPS. I am not proposing to scrap MUMPS either, since this is impossible, there are millions of records in MUMPS. However, the American Veterans Affairs Office decided to replace MUMPS with something else. This move will cost the VA 16 billion dollars. You can get information about this decision from the Internet. I suppose that Epic Systems itself would be interested in such a project, since it is losing ground to Cerner due to the use of an obsolete language. I also think that the Nim community should contact Epic System (they campus in Verona, Wisconsin, is wonderful) and ask a grant to create a Nim option for doctors. Here are two articles about the VA project:
[https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/va-plans-to-go-live-cerner-ehr-pilot-by-march-2020](https://www.fiercehealthcare.com/tech/va-plans-to-go-live-cerner-ehr-pilot-by-march-2020) [https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/23/veterans-health-project-1673379](https://www.politico.com/story/2019/08/23/veterans-health-project-1673379)
