Electronic health records giant Cerner was on the list, so were McKesson and Meditech.

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Fok decided to invest, and in 2000 Hutchison China Meditech was born.

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The two companies, old-style Shanghai Hutchison and high-tech Hutchison MediPharma, have little in common, yet they share the same parent, Hutchison China MediTech, or Chi-Med.

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Faulkner wrote the code, using the computer language MUMPS. The founder of Meditech, an electronic health record company, had developed it in 1968 at Mass General Hospital.

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