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Learn MUMPS and move to Wisconsin.

Is MUMPS still a thing :-) maybe I ought to dust of my RT-11 / FORTRAN skills off

The biggest EMR company was Epic and uses Mumps [0]. However, they are losing share to Center and others [1], so this formula will only work for a little while longer.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13860937

[1] https://ehrintelligence.com/news/cerner-epic-mckesson-among-...

Epic still dominates the EHR space.

They have deployments slotted for 3 years.

If you have ever worked with epic, they offer "managed" solutions, which you either do the epic designed way, or don't go epic... They have enough market share and business to dictate how things will work in a hospital env

You get at the door of companies in the healthcare space that need to get up to their game and tell them what you can do for them. That's what I did.

I was recruited right out of college to work at Cerner. Its probably still fairly trivial to get a job there, but you have to live in Kansas City.