I had to deal with Meditech for 9 years supporting the infrastructure requirements for a hospital group.
We had to fight to get them to agree on any improvements we wanted to make :
- virtualization
- support of vmware VMDK files instead of RDM
- support for non EMC arrays
- support for hyperconverged (nutanix)
- support for non EMC Networker or BridgeHead Backup
- DR process not using some proprietary software
- file archiving not using proprietary tool
version 5.x was a 3 tier application that looked like Windows 3.1
version 6.x no longer required 3 tier, not because they fixed it but just required you to run Citrix and UI was similar to GUI being put on top of AS/400 green screens (menu system) ... have a look here if you dare :) http://webapp.cchcs.org/tutorials/CBT/ADM/ADM%20Registration...
Apparently they are working on a SQL port and we advocated for years that they should focus on the business side using industry standard tools and languages.
I'm not hopeful tho as they wouldn't support things like Windows VSS and built their own tool, still had multiple single points of failures (20 "File Servers" aka the database backend and none redundant), issues with NTFS FAL fragmentation (and associated requirement to get a third party tool to monitor and fix) and the list goes on...
Moved on recently and only thing that looks good on the resume is, for people knowing Meditech, seeing all the changes we were able to push through ...
Oh and yes users were not big fans. All data entry needs to be entered in CAPITAL (no auto convert) so you need to caps lock when in Meditech and then remove the lock when switching to something like Word and the spacebar is a keyboard shortcut to select an item ...
And to really appreciated how bad it is, just search for "Meditech sucks" and read feedback from nurses ...
Back to the original post, I put MUMPS in the same category as COBOL ... useful a long time ago.
- virtualization
- support of vmware VMDK files instead of RDM
- support for non EMC arrays
- support for hyperconverged (nutanix)
- support for non EMC Networker or BridgeHead Backup
- DR process not using some proprietary software
- file archiving not using proprietary tool
version 5.x was a 3 tier application that looked like Windows 3.1 version 6.x no longer required 3 tier, not because they fixed it but just required you to run Citrix and UI was similar to GUI being put on top of AS/400 green screens (menu system) ... have a look here if you dare :) http://webapp.cchcs.org/tutorials/CBT/ADM/ADM%20Registration...
Apparently they are working on a SQL port and we advocated for years that they should focus on the business side using industry standard tools and languages. I'm not hopeful tho as they wouldn't support things like Windows VSS and built their own tool, still had multiple single points of failures (20 "File Servers" aka the database backend and none redundant), issues with NTFS FAL fragmentation (and associated requirement to get a third party tool to monitor and fix) and the list goes on...
Moved on recently and only thing that looks good on the resume is, for people knowing Meditech, seeing all the changes we were able to push through ...
Oh and yes users were not big fans. All data entry needs to be entered in CAPITAL (no auto convert) so you need to caps lock when in Meditech and then remove the lock when switching to something like Word and the spacebar is a keyboard shortcut to select an item ...
And to really appreciated how bad it is, just search for "Meditech sucks" and read feedback from nurses ...
Back to the original post, I put MUMPS in the same category as COBOL ... useful a long time ago.