Why are so many men pregnant? Data entry mistakes in the health industry

Re:Why are so many men pregnant? Data entry mistakes in the ... by bcostlow on Thursday May 17, 2012 @06:40AM (#3986318)

While I know the article was about the UK, in the USA a lot of clinical data is not stored in an RDBMS.

The software is written in MUMPS, which has a built in (sort of) document oriented data storage layer.

You can read the Wikipedia page and look at some sample code and draw your own conclusions on whether that's better or worse.

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Re:Why are so many men pregnant? Data entry mistakes in the ... by paol on Thursday May 17, 2012 @07:48AM (#3986514)

MUMPS has featured several times on The Daily WTF (here's one: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx). That alone should tell you something...

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Re:Why are so many men pregnant? Data entry mistakes in the ... by gaius on Thursday May 17, 2012 @08:13AM (#3986591)

This is funny, because MUMPS actually ticks the modern trendy boxes of "NoSQL" and "DSL".

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Re:Why are so many men pregnant? Data entry mistakes in the ... by ak39 on Thursday May 17, 2012 @06:50AM (#3986350)

Thanks for the link.

What a name for a product servicing the healthcare industry. :-(

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