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Neil Pappalardo Alive

Neil Pappalardo
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Created MUMPS at Massachusetts General (1966) — a hierarchical-database language still running hospitals and banks.

Created MUMPS

Created MUMPS (1966) at Massachusetts General Hospital — the database-language hybrid for medical records — and founded MEDITECH on it.\n\nThe VA's VistA system still runs on descendants; possibly the most important healthcare codebase in existence.