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)
All EMR's suck though. (note: I made one)
We shouldn’t feed the illusion that old stacks are inherently bad and that new stacks will magically solve all problems.
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.
I certain wouldn’t advocate using VB for new code. All I am saying is that the real problem is not the stack.
All EMRs suck though.
The backend is most certainly not in anything close to Visual Basic.. (MUMPS - using Intersystems Cache as the object store implementation)