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Epic, which delivers most of the Electronic Medical Records software for large healthcare organizations in the United States, has never raised any funding. With

Epic, which delivers most of the Electronic Medical Records software for large healthcare organizations in the United States, has never raised any funding. With revenues over $1.7 billion a year, their valuation is certainly greater than $1b.

chadkruse 12y ago
Raised $70k: http://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2012/04/18/epic-systems-tough-billionaire/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2012/04/18/epic-s... Regardless, still a great story.
mrbrandonking 12y ago
There's a story on "The Daily WTF" that's almost certainly about Epic Systems. Epic apparently uses an obfuscated 60's-era language called MUMPS. See http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx I found another article that says Epic prefers to hire fresh college graduates because they're easier to mold into the "Epic Way."
- kylemhill 12y ago
  I used to work at Epic, but it was over six years ago at this point. Their entire stack at the time was MUMPS and VB6. No idea if that's still the case, mind you -- there were some modernization efforts underway when I left. Although from what my friends that work at Epic hospitals tell me about their software, it likely hasn't changed much. And I almost certainly got hired there because I actually knew MUMPS from a previous job. Of the developers they hired during my cycle, every one of them was on an H1-B or fresh out of Carnegie Mellon or MIT; meanwhile I was a kid with a sub-3 GPA from a liberal arts school with a Political Science degree. (If you do some light searching, you can find another famous story on TDWTF that I wrote about MUMPS.)
  - xxpor 12y ago
    They're still on VB6 and MUMPS. They've just recently started doing C# stuff.
  - aaronbrethorst 12y ago
    > I was a kid with a sub-3 GPA from a liberal arts school with a Political Science degree. Funny, they rejected me from even interviewing with a 3.01 GPA and a Computer Science degree because my GPA wasn't high enough. It worked out well, though, and I'm glad I never had to live in Madison.

chadkruse 12y ago

Raised $70k: http://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2012/04/18/epic-systems-tough-billionaire/ http://www.forbes.com/sites/zinamoukheiber/2012/04/18/epic-s... Regardless, still a great story.

mrbrandonking 12y ago

There's a story on "The Daily WTF" that's almost certainly about Epic Systems. Epic apparently uses an obfuscated 60's-era language called MUMPS. See http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx I found another article that says Epic prefers to hire fresh college graduates because they're easier to mold into the "Epic Way."

kylemhill 12y ago
I used to work at Epic, but it was over six years ago at this point. Their entire stack at the time was MUMPS and VB6. No idea if that's still the case, mind you -- there were some modernization efforts underway when I left. Although from what my friends that work at Epic hospitals tell me about their software, it likely hasn't changed much. And I almost certainly got hired there because I actually knew MUMPS from a previous job. Of the developers they hired during my cycle, every one of them was on an H1-B or fresh out of Carnegie Mellon or MIT; meanwhile I was a kid with a sub-3 GPA from a liberal arts school with a Political Science degree. (If you do some light searching, you can find another famous story on TDWTF that I wrote about MUMPS.)
- xxpor 12y ago
  They're still on VB6 and MUMPS. They've just recently started doing C# stuff.
- aaronbrethorst 12y ago
  > I was a kid with a sub-3 GPA from a liberal arts school with a Political Science degree. Funny, they rejected me from even interviewing with a 3.01 GPA and a Computer Science degree because my GPA wasn't high enough. It worked out well, though, and I'm glad I never had to live in Madison.