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To the editor:
I read with interest your article on EHRs in the October FP Report ("EHR Improves Work Flow, Patient Care"). I would be especially interested in joining any list AAFP puts out offering my practice as an example of an EHR in action.
I have a solo family practice in a 100-year-old Civil-War-era house in Tennessee. I use SOAPware, offered by DOCS Inc., and networked the Dell computers myself. I am now wireless with tablet computers. My total outlay was $300 for the program and $6,000 initially for the computers. We have grown over time, and I probably have $15,000 invested in computers today.
In the four years I have been here, this system has paid for itself time and time again.
Of note to your readers, when Vioxx® was taken off the market, it took me two minutes to search my patient charts. I then printed a form letter for the 368 patients for whom I have ever prescribed Vioxx advising them to stop using the drug and throw out all Vioxx pills in their drug cabinets.
Sigrid Johnson, M.D.
Sweetwater, Tenn.
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