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It's made in Visual Basic, and it literally cannot interact with its own versions. Hospitals have different versions of the same system in the same building and
by conanbatt 7y ago
It's made in Visual Basic, and it literally cannot interact with its own versions. Hospitals have different versions of the same system in the same building and cant exchange information.
All EMR's suck though. (note: I made one)
- Ididntdothis 7y ago”It's made in Visual Basic” We shouldn’t feed the illusion that old stacks are inherently bad and that new stacks will magically solve all problems.
- slumdev 7y agoNobody makes this complaint about C++ (which is older) or Java (which is almost as old.)
- Ididntdothis 7y agoSure people do.
- slumdev 7y agoI think it's a matter of having the right tool for the job. If someone wanted to write a modern website in C++, I'd probably gripe about that. But Java, with either J2EE or Spring? No complaints here. VB just isn't appropriate anywhere anymore.
- Ididntdothis 7y agoEvery app has to start somewhere and will after a while be outdated. Whatever problems EPIC has are most likely not because of VB but because of bad management. I work in medical and I see almost every day management decisions that will lead to future software problems but nobody in leadership understands or wants to understand. Have a problem? Just throw the cheapest offshore team you can find at it. Repeat that a few times and you have a completely incoherent architecture. You will get this result with any stack. I certain wouldn’t advocate using VB for new code. All I am saying is that the real problem is not the stack.
- conanbatt 7y agoThis 'app' charges in the range of 6 digits yearly per provider.
- stevula 7y agoI’ve always heard it was programmed in MUMPS
- shigawire 7y agoMUMPS in the back. Front is c# and typescript replacing the much maligned VB.
- noelsusman 7y agoIt's written in MUMPS.
- dekhn 7y agoThis is only my individual anecdote, but when I switched between two EPIC-using care providers (Kaiser->Anthem/Sutter), once I provided consent they pulled all my records over and 5 minutes later I was talking to a new doctor who had all the info from my previous doctor. All EMRs suck though.
- conanbatt 7y agoYes, but that only works epic-to-epic. If you go to a non-epic place, epic will send you a 100 page PDF.
- tbyehl 7y agoSome of a competing EMR is PowerBuilder. Hopefully not the one you made ;-)
- braindeath 7y agoThe front-end is in Visual Basic. The backend is most certainly not in anything close to Visual Basic.. (MUMPS - using Intersystems Cache as the object store implementation)