From the monthly archives:

January 2009

ADA News: CareCredit offers two new resources for dentists

January 31, 2009

CareCredit offers two new resources for dentists
The first feature helps a dental office create its own financial policy, customized to its payment preferences. CareCredit recently consulted with a comprehensive network of practice management speakers and compiled their best advice and techniques on how to develop a written financial policy—one which clarifies and explains the [...]

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American Academy of Dental Practice Administration

January 31, 2009

This is always one of the best meetings I attend every year. I can honestly say the AADPA has had a profound effect on both my personal and professional life.
March 4–8, 20009
American Academy of Dental Practice Administration.

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Guide to Digital Radiography

January 31, 2009

Digital Radiography is one of the most exciting and fastest growing technologies in dentistry. It is also the area with the most misinformation. I constantly talk with dentists who either do buy digital for the wrong reasons or don’t buy for the wrong reasons.
My comprehensive technology guide, “Digital Radiography” exposes nine myths about digital radiography [...]

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Paperless records are better than traditional system

January 31, 2009

This is a link to a research project in medicine but it is directly applicable to dentistry.

Electronic medical records are more complete and understandable than paper records. In a cross sectional study of 529 records in 25 general practices,

Paperless records are better than traditional system.

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ADA News: National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII)

January 31, 2009

An interesting resource on the future of electronic dental records and information from the ADA

National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII)

ADA.org: ADA News: National Health Information Infrastructure (NHII).

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Hummmm

January 31, 2009

“A person who has a cat by the tail knows a whole lot more about cats than a person who has just read about them”
Mark Twain

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Dental Web Marketing: Dental Patients ARE Online

January 31, 2009

Dental Patients ARE Online Don’t think that dental patients go online much? Check out Twitter’s search for “dentist”. Twitter.com is a website where people post mini-blog entries about what they are doing (i.e. Drinking coffee with my mother). There are people practically every minute “tweeting” about being at or going to the dental office. Ask [...]

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WHY MEN ARE NEVER DEPRESSED

January 30, 2009

Your last name stays put. Wedding plans take care of themselves. You can never be pregnant. Car mechanics tell you the truth. The world is your urinal. You don’t have to stop and think of which way to turn a nut on a bolt. Wrinkles add character. People never stare at your chest when you’re [...]

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Good Charting Software

January 30, 2009

Good charting software has many features. One of the most important is that is eliminates all paper. That means the software must accommodate all the bits of paper data outlined above and it must have a method of importing virtually anything either with a scanner or file import function. If some bit of paper possibly [...]

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January 30, 2009

Patterson pioneered hardware supply and support for dentists using their local branch offices. Now Henry Schein has a program to supply hardware and even more important hardware support to dentists. The program is called OATS.

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Moore’s Law

January 29, 2009

Moore’s Law states that computing power will double every eighteen months. He has been right for forty years. This means that it is foolish to shop for a computer that will last for the rest of your practice life. It is foolish to worry about filling up your server hard drive in four or five years.

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Comments

January 29, 2009

Comments are now open and welcome.Comments had been turned off due to outrageous spamming. That has been fixed.

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Gearlog – Gadget Guide for Geeks by Geeks

January 29, 2009

Amazon Kindle 2.0 Coming February 9th?
Let’s get what we know so far in order here. First, Amazon’s followup to the first Kindle is largely expected to arrive early this year. Second, Amazon is holding a press event in New York early next month. Third, said event is scheduled for the Morgan Library in midtown [...]

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The next BIG Thing

January 28, 2009

In my opinion the next major development we will see in high tech in dentistry will not be a slick device we use in the office but will be creative and expanded use of the Internet. That will include e-services like e-claims and e-call cards and the use of online communications with patients, colleagues, labs [...]

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Leadership

January 28, 2009

Leadership is a relationship between those who aspire to lead and those who choose to follow. Strategies, tactics, skills, and practices are empty without understanding the aspirations that connect leaders and constituents.
by James M. Kouzes and Barry Z. Posner

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Security and SOX

January 28, 2009

I especially like the “Security Theater” line.

Nearly everyone who works with a computer has gotten some version of the ‘Password Memo’.The Password Memo lays out lots of rules for passwords – i.e., they must be at least eight characters long; they must include numbers, upper and lower case, and punctuation; they shouldn’t be your user [...]

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Is it Really Possible to “Go Paperless”?

January 28, 2009

“If someone has done it,  it is probably Possible.”  Omar Reed
The real answer to this question is yes…but. It depends on what you mean by “paperless”. The goal is not to eliminate all paper. There are many effective uses and needs for paper. However what is possible and highly desirable is to create a paperless dental record.
Many [...]

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Book Recommendation

January 27, 2009

Artful Pursuasion

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What is Neo-Luddite?

January 27, 2009

Neo-Luddite Last modified: Friday, January 16, 2009
A slang term used to describe an individual who believes that using science and technology will have moral and social implications on society. Neo-Luddite is used to describe those who are considered to be anti-technology, or those who dislike or have a difficult time understanding and using modern [...]

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Public & Private

January 27, 2009

Some things seen on the computer monitor are public. Those are things we want the patient to see, their own chart, x-rays, photos or patient education. Other information should not be seen. That would include another patient’s chart or even the daily schedule. That is private.
Another way to refer to these is the patient [...]

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