Just saw a news story headline that Neil Pappalardo, founder of Meditech, Died

[Nancy Anthracite]

He was 83.  He started Meditech in 1969 and was CEO until 2010

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Nancy Anthracite

[Christian Caldwell]

Here is the link: 

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/meditech-announces-passing-founder-chairman-163800447.html

[Christian Caldwell]

He was still Chairman of Meditech til the end. It's wild to hear he passed. I mentioned Meditech in another post earlier. 

[George Timson]

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By inventing MUMPS, Neil changed the lives of everyone reading this. I've always been proud to say that I was Meditech's first programmer.

Neil was smart, so smart, and so funny, but much of his success was sheer tenacity -- like the Taurus he was. I remember him coming in to the office in the middle of the night, after a crash, and working for hours on the PDP, flipping the little plastic switches, talking to himself, just WILLING the computer to be fixed.

He made our work fun, and meaningful, and like all great leaders he knew that the way to get the best out of people was to work the hardest, and, yes, to love them.

[Dave G]

wow a great loss. EHR would not be the same without Mumps. RIP 

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