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Dr. Oates introduced his program at the 1990 American Academy of Family Physicians Scientific assembly where it was received with much enthusiasm by fellow physicians facing similar problems. By the end of the year, 30 doctors had begun integrating the prototype system into their own private practice. Within two years, Dr. Oates would join with Greg Lose and David Powell to develop the program into a viable comercial product. Today, the software is utilized by almost 30,000 professionals in private practice around the world. | Dr. Oates introduced his program at the 1990 American Academy of Family Physicians Scientific assembly where it was received with much enthusiasm by fellow physicians facing similar problems. By the end of the year, 30 doctors had begun integrating the prototype system into their own private practice. Within two years, Dr. Oates would join with Greg Lose and David Powell to develop the program into a viable comercial product. Today, the software is utilized by almost 30,000 professionals in private practice around the world. | ||
| − | The software has been praised for | + | The software has been praised for its usability. The software's creators attribute this to two main things: The first is that it mimics paper charts that users are already accustomed to and the second is that the system was created in a private practice by a physician, someone who was already experienced with the needs of an office of that scale and scope. |
== Clinical Applications == | == Clinical Applications == | ||
Revision as of 20:50, 6 September 2013
The SOAPware EMR was created to provide optimal care by modeling the paper chart. There are currently over 30,000 users with 10,000 sites nationwide as well as in 30 other countries(1).
History
SOAPware was founded in 1994 by Dr. Randall Oates(3) but, the program developed out of a custom EHR system he began developing for his own practice in 1987. The original software was created during the 1987 flu season when he observed that much of his work involved repeating similar phrases for similar problems over and over. Dr. Oates' desire for a streamlined solution to the constant repetition led him to build the prototype SOAPware system. By the end of the 1987 he was using the system in his personal practice full time.
Dr. Oates introduced his program at the 1990 American Academy of Family Physicians Scientific assembly where it was received with much enthusiasm by fellow physicians facing similar problems. By the end of the year, 30 doctors had begun integrating the prototype system into their own private practice. Within two years, Dr. Oates would join with Greg Lose and David Powell to develop the program into a viable comercial product. Today, the software is utilized by almost 30,000 professionals in private practice around the world.
The software has been praised for its usability. The software's creators attribute this to two main things: The first is that it mimics paper charts that users are already accustomed to and the second is that the system was created in a private practice by a physician, someone who was already experienced with the needs of an office of that scale and scope.
Clinical Applications
- SOAPware EMR
- SOAPware PM
- SOAPware Hosting Options
- SOAPware Docu-Portal
Features
- Professional Scheduling
- Intelligent E&M Coding
- Patient Research Tools
- Device Integrations
- Instant Medical History Integration
- Order Entry System
- Flow Sheets and Growth Charts
- Document management
- Health Maintenance System
- Tasks Management
- E-prescribing (not available in the State of Ohio)
- Patient Education Handouts
