MUMPS - Current Users of MUMPS Applications

Current Users of MUMPS Applications

The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (formerly the Veterans Administration) was one of the earliest major adopters of the MUMPS language. Their development work (and subsequent contributions to the free MUMPS application codebase) was an influence on many medical users worldwide. In 1995, the Veterans Affairs' patient Admission/Tracking/Discharge system, Decentralized Hospital Computer Program (DHCP) was the recipient of the Computerworld Smithsonian Award for best use of Information Technology in Medicine. In July 2006, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) / Veterans Health Administration (VHA) was the recipient of the Innovations in American Government Award presented by the Ash Institute of the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University for its extension of DHCP into the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture (VistA). Nearly the entire VA hospital system in the United States, the Indian Health Service, and major parts of the Department of Defense CHCS hospital system use MUMPS databases for clinical data tracking. Coventry Healthcare and Massachusetts Hospital have also been reported to use MUMPS.

Large companies currently using MUMPS include AmeriPath (part of Quest Diagnostics), Care Centric, Epic Systems, EMIS, Partners HealthCare, MEDITECH, GE Healthcare (formerly IDX Systems and Centricity). Many reference laboratories, such as Quest Diagnostics and Dynacare, use MUMPS software written or based on by Antrim Corporation code. Antrim, and its parent Sunquest Information Systems, was acquired by Misys in 2001.

MUMPS is widely used in financial applications. MUMPS gained an early following in the financial sector, and MUMPS applications are in use at many banks and credit unions. It is used by Ameritrade, the largest online trading service in the US with over 12 billion transactions per day, as well as by the Bank of England and Barclays Bank, among others.

Since 2005 use of MUMPS is either in the form of GT.M or InterSystems Caché. The latter is being aggressively marketed by InterSystems and has had success in penetrating new markets, such as telecommunications, in addition to existing markets. The European Space Agency announced on May 13, 2010 that it will use MUMPS to support the Gaia mission. This mission aims to map the Milky Way with unprecedented precision.