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Going Paperless Webinar

February 4, 2012

Seseme Communications is sponsoring a one hour free webinar on “Going Paperless” Tuesday Feb 28.
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Six steps to developing a high tech dental office

February 2, 2012

1. Begin with the End in Mind:
Have a plan and a goal before you start
2. Establish a technology infrastructure:
Integrated practice management software
Computers networked in the treatment rooms
3. Add the “Big 2”:
Digital images
Digital radiography
4. Non-dental programs:
Word processing
Checkbook
Anti virus
5. Add advanced dental applications:
CAD CAM
Digital Diagnostics
Computerized probes
6. Keep a future focus; be open to evolving technologies:
Internet
3D Images
Mobile

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Digital Charting Tip

January 16, 2012

If you get a good set of intraoral digital photos and x-rays you can do much of the charting at your desk. You no longer need to be chairside with the assistant calling out findings while she scribbles things down on paper. This is especially true with existing restorations, broken teeth and other conditions. You can [...]

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The High Tech Power Practice

January 9, 2012

I will be presenting a half day program at the Yankee Dental Congress January 28, 2012
Everyday dentists are faced with remarkable new high tech products that do everything from finding caries to making a crown. Digital technology is revolutionizing every aspect of dental practice including how we make clinical decisions and how we communicate. A [...]

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Online Video CE

January 6, 2012

Online Video CE The High Tech Power Practice
Five Modules

Essentials
Paperless
Advanced
Internet
Stuff

DentalEDU.tv

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Electronic Dental Record (EDR)

January 2, 2012

At a very basic level an EDR is simply a digital or electronic dental chart. That is, all the information or data that we used to create using paper is instead created in a digital format and stored as an electronic record. This includes charting, treatment planning, procedure notes, medical histories, lab slips, lab results, [...]

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Training Training Training

December 31, 2011

A critical step in developing a successful paperless record (or any new technology system) is training. Every team member, including the dentist, must understand and use the computers. You will never get full value from your technology investment with out training. One of the major technology mistakes dentists often make is to take off and go [...]

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Dental Electronic Records Lag Behind:

December 26, 2011

Here is a link to a recent article I wrote for Medscape.
Current products may do a fine job of creating a digital dental chart. However, these dental chart data are often confined to the specific dental office in which the data are stored. This creates a challenge for multiple offices. Current products make it difficult, [...]

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Digital Referrals

December 9, 2011

Follow the link to an article I wrote for the AZ Dental Journal Inscriptions. The article is on paperless or digital specialty referrals.
http://www.azda.org/Inscriptions/2011Dec/index.html#/36/

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A High Tech Look at Dental Tourism

December 7, 2011

A link to a new article in Dentalcampare.
What if you could export American quality of care and combine it with a developing world cost platform in a desirable resort destination? You could offer patients a fabulous vacation experience, the opportunity to receive high quality dental care delivered by US trained professionals for less than the [...]

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Pre Digital

November 28, 2011

From Seth Godin.

A brief visit to the emergency room last month reminded me of what an organization that’s pre-digital is like. Six people doing bureaucratic tasks and screening that are artifacts of a paper universe, all in the service of one doctor (and the need to get paid and not get sued). A 90-minute experience [...]

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More Than Paperless Charts

November 17, 2011

I recently received a call from Ed Dolan a dentist from the Seattle area. Ed told me how he was using some imaginative online e-services to outsource basic office work. I thought it was a creative way to leverage technology in ways we have yet to consider in dentistry. With these online e-services you can [...]

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Feuerstein on “Going Paperless”

November 5, 2011

The following quote is from my dental geek buddy and fellow high tech speaker Paul Feuerstein. I always thought Paul was a sharp guy but this seals the deal. Paul’s advice is exactly, 100%, identical to what I teach and believe. Proof positive that Paul Feuerstein is very smart.
“Pick a date, and from [...]

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Paperless Webinar October 25

October 24, 2011

 

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Napa-Solano Dental Society

October 14, 2011

I will be presenting a full day program for the Napa-Solano Dental Society on Friday October 21. The topics will be Paperless Records and using the Internet. For more information contact Roni Sherlock at 707 428-3894.

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Stuff vs. Solutions

September 30, 2011

A problem I see over and over again with high tech and dentistry is Stuff vs. Solutions. The most visible element of digital technology is the thing; that is the computer, the sensor the big monitor or even the web page. Because these things are so obvious the tendency is to think of technology in [...]

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Patients Like E-mail

September 29, 2011

Did you know?
58% of consumers start their online day by reading their emails.
76% of dental patients said email is the best way for companies to communicate with them.
This is based on a 2008 Sesame Communications research paper. Most likely today even more of your patients prefer e-mail.
So the question is…are you using it? Or even [...]

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Making it Digital

September 28, 2011

It is possible to turn all the gobs of dead tree (paper) information stuffed in our charts into electronic digital information. YES. There are four ways to create digital information
Enter it: What this refers to is the process of directly typing or clicking in information.
Capture it: Digital capture refers to a process that creates or captures [...]

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IBM putting Watson to work in health insurance

September 15, 2011

Watson is famous for defeating human champions on Jeopary. Now there are plans to use the super power of Watson in health care. In other words make the computer into Dr. Watson.
…combine data from three sources: a patients chart and electronic records that a doctor or hospital has, the insurance companys history of medicines and treatments, [...]

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Feds plan new rules on patient health data

September 14, 2011

From my local paper. Interesting look at the advantages of EHR from a patient’s perspective.
The new regulations mean a doctor will be able to send prescriptions directly to a pharmacist instead of using a paper prescription. Specialists will be able to see which tests and prescriptions other doctors have ordered.
By the way…that bit about all [...]

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