MUMPS
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MUMPS ("Massachusetts General Hospital Utility Multi-Programming System"), or M, is an imperative, high-level programming language with an integrated transaction processing key–value database. It was originally developed at Massachusetts General Hospital for managing patient medical records and hospital laboratory information systems.
Paradigm | Imperative, procedural |
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Designed by | Neil Pappalardo, Curt Marble, Robert A. Greenes |
First appeared | 1966; 58 years ago (1966) |
Stable release | ANSI X11.1-1995
/ December 8, 1995 (1995-12-08) |
Typing discipline | Typeless |
OS | Cross-platform |
Influenced by | |
JOSS | |
Influenced | |
PSL, Caché ObjectScript, GT.M |
MUMPS technology has since expanded as the predominant database for health information systems and electronic health records in the United States. MUMPS-based information systems run over 40% of the hospitals in the U.S., run across all of the U.S. federal hospitals and clinics, and provide health information services for over 54% of patients across the U.S.[citation needed]
A unique feature of the MUMPS technology is its integrated database language, allowing direct, high-speed read-write access to permanent disk storage.[1] This provides tight integration of unlimited applications within a single database, and provides extremely high performance and reliability as an online transaction processing system.[citation needed]