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Published · transcript-backedBen Gilbert: uncertainty
21 Apr 2025 Acquired Epic Systems (MyChart)
“I don’t know about the industry, but for Epic, which I guess now for the industry.”
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- Speaker
- Ben Gilbert
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- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 21 Apr 2025
- Publisher
- Acquired
- Episode
- Epic Systems (MyChart)
Transcript context
…And Epic still uses MUMPS today, or actually it uses its modern descent in Caché, but this is the standard programming language and database system for the industry. I don’t know about the industry, but for Epic, which I guess now for the industry. Well that’s what I was going to say. Many of Epic’s competitors do not use this, but Epic does, so it’s de facto the standard now. Now there are two key features of MUMPS, and this is why these programmers had to create their own language. One, the language and the database are integrated. Right there within the programming language is a database structure. That makes it very computationally-efficient for handling all these high velocity and data-intensive transactions that need to happen.…
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