DIY EMR: The essential elements

It's been almost 2 years with my homegrown EMR. Works great. For any of you in the 'sphere who might want to do as I have done, here are the essential or helpful elements:

• Tablet PC with Windows XP Tablet edition
  
• MS Office Suite 2007
• Adobe Acrobat Reader
• Efax Pro
• Canon Multifunction F80 scanner/copier etc with included software or other brand
  
• Cardscan business card scanner with included software
• Linksys VPN manager
• MySecureDoc encryption software
  
• 1 DVD writer
• 1 external hard drive
• 1 off-site automatic back-up facility
  
• Your own courage to go for it!
  

Optional:

• Adobe Photoshop Elements
• Adobe Acrobat Standard
• OmniForm

All the above is off the shelf, inexpensive (relatively so) and easily customizable and scalable. Each of the above programs are also very powerful and user friendly.

Give it a whirl. Let me know what you think.

The IU.