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Epic is now working on switching to web technologies for the front-end, so if you're not one of the unlucky ones to be stuck on a purely core team, you'll get t

by goda90 10y ago

Epic is now working on switching to web technologies for the front-end, so if you're not one of the unlucky ones to be stuck on a purely core team, you'll get time writing Javascript and the like.

lbhnact 10y ago
Interesting. What 'modules' are they going to push webtech to? Within the general UI or as subcomponents like the 2015 search add-in?
- goda90 10y ago
  Hopefully everything someday. VB6 is a pain to maintain/add new features to.
caycep 10y ago
dear god...it's about time[1]...except I shudder to think what their concept of "the web" might be [1]aside from being a long-suffering user of Meditech, I am also a long-suffering user of Epic, who had the misfortune of going through "mandatory Epic training" at 4 separate institutions that were transitioning to it from Meditech, or pencil and paper. I am still not sure which of the three systems were the most technologically advanced...
- northern_lights 10y ago
  I find Epic to be more horrifying than Meditech, because Epic has somehow managed to convince many healthcare workers that it is a "modern" product worthy of praise, despite all evidence to the contrary. People talk about SmartPhrases like it's some miracle instead of a damn snippets manager (and a bad one at that). The fact that they're moving away from VB6 to a web-based front-end in 2017 should be reason enough to assume that whatever they come out with is going to be excruciating.
dingdongding 10y ago
They're moving to web technologies but that's happening very slow. It could take at least 10 years at current pace. Source - I am ex epic employee
- DanielFallon 10y ago
  from my last contact, they've definitely accelerated their pace of migrating to the web. I bet they'll be out of VB 6 code within 5 years easily but web doesn't necessarily mean modern in any sense of the word.

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Epic is now working on switching to web technologies for the front-end, so if you're not one of the unlucky ones to be stuck on a purely core team, you'll get t

by goda90 10y ago

Epic is now working on switching to web technologies for the front-end, so if you're not one of the unlucky ones to be stuck on a purely core team, you'll get time writing Javascript and the like.

lbhnact 10y ago
Interesting. What 'modules' are they going to push webtech to? Within the general UI or as subcomponents like the 2015 search add-in?
- goda90 10y ago
  Hopefully everything someday. VB6 is a pain to maintain/add new features to.
caycep 10y ago
dear god...it's about time[1]...except I shudder to think what their concept of "the web" might be [1]aside from being a long-suffering user of Meditech, I am also a long-suffering user of Epic, who had the misfortune of going through "mandatory Epic training" at 4 separate institutions that were transitioning to it from Meditech, or pencil and paper. I am still not sure which of the three systems were the most technologically advanced...
- northern_lights 10y ago
  I find Epic to be more horrifying than Meditech, because Epic has somehow managed to convince many healthcare workers that it is a "modern" product worthy of praise, despite all evidence to the contrary. People talk about SmartPhrases like it's some miracle instead of a damn snippets manager (and a bad one at that). The fact that they're moving away from VB6 to a web-based front-end in 2017 should be reason enough to assume that whatever they come out with is going to be excruciating.
dingdongding 10y ago
They're moving to web technologies but that's happening very slow. It could take at least 10 years at current pace. Source - I am ex epic employee
- DanielFallon 10y ago
  from my last contact, they've definitely accelerated their pace of migrating to the web. I bet they'll be out of VB 6 code within 5 years easily but web doesn't necessarily mean modern in any sense of the word.