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I'm not near the space any longer (in a former life, the healthcare industry was a big customer of our computer systems). But a significant portion of healthcare in the US used to use a proprietary language called MUMPS. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS

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Epic has been trying to move on for years, or so a recruiter told me half a decade ago. Their job posting now describes “Using leading-edge technologies and languages like JS, TS, and C#”, though I wouldn’t put a bait and switch past them.

MEDITECH, maybe others, had a proprietary operating system too. (We had a special deal to sell them hardware without an OS at a time when they were normally bundled.) Eventually they moved on to NT.

Yeah, well, they have a thing called TS2M, referred to e.g. here... https://www.reddit.com/r/epicsystems/comments/9pmsjj/ts2m_in...

MUMPS is quite popular in finance, mostly through Cache product.

Including for new developments.

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