I am presently setting up my surgical office with electronic medical records (EMR)on FM 8 pro Advanced Windows (5 pack) and have it networked in the office (front desk to the examin rooms). The combination of Scansoft's Dragon Naturally Speaking (voice recog software) and a wireless microphone putting data into FMP is awesome. I was wondering about the ability to connect the office computer running (FMP) to my home computer (FMP) and visualize the same records and making changes to the database. Of course security is an issue with medical records. If anyone has any suggestions (VPN, communication software...) it would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you all

VPN would be your best bet I think, unless Windows Remote Desktop supports Dragon (you can probably find that out on Scansoft's website).

One issue about you're deployment though: the host machine in your office would need to be running at all times with the files open since you're not using FileMaker Server. So how would you schedule backups?

Thanks for the insight. I really don't know much about the server FMP maybe that is the best solution to a remote access... I'm still learning.

Back ups? once a day for our small office should be okay.

Thanks again.