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Dentrix G5 Shipping

February 3, 2012

Dentrix has started shipping their newest version G5 to a limited number of users. The “Official” release is scheduled for the Hinman meeting in Atlanta March 22-24. However by starting now with limited numbers they can ensure tech support for users installing the new version and catch and fix any unforeseen bugs before general distribution. [...]

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Remember When “e” was Just a Letter?

February 3, 2012

This link
Remember When “e” was Just a Letter?.
Will take you to the course I did for the DT Study Club at the Greater New York Meeting. The topic is e-Services, what they are, how they work and how they can be used to both save money and improve patient health.

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Dentistry Today CE Leaders

December 19, 2011

Thank You. I was privileged to be chosen as one of the top dental CE Leaders for 2012 by Dentistry Today.

Emmott, Lawrence F..

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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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Very Good Video

December 7, 2011

Here is a very nice example of an online video from Dr. Marc Wallach. The example is professional but not too “Hollywood”. By that I mean it demonstrates that the Dr. is competent but it is not over the top glitzy. A patient watching this video should feel re-assured that Dr. Wallach is up to [...]

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Do You Need To Upgrade Your Technology?

November 2, 2011

The linked Amex Open Forum article examines a situation common in dentistry. When income declines, (due to the general economy or whatever,) one of the first places dentists look to cut costs is IT (technology). However a good argument can be made that IT is the last place to cut as good technology properly utilized will [...]

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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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Front Deskless?

September 2, 2011

Is the Front Desk a Person, a Place or a Thing?
Once we transfer the data from paper to electronic paperless records, we no longer need a single physical place, like the front desk, to gather the information. An administrator can gather the data where ever there is a computer. That could be at the front, [...]

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Guide to “Computers in the Back”

September 1, 2011

As a dental practice consultant, I’ve observed one of the fastest growing trends in dentistry is putting computers in the treatment rooms. The question then arises…OK now that I have all these computers, where the heck do I put this stuff?  Many dentists either just assume there is no room for a computer or they stuff [...]

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Commitment

July 21, 2011

“Until one is committed, there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one elementary truth the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that the moment one definitely commits oneself, the providence moves too. A whole stream of events issues from the [...]

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Mobile Case Study

July 20, 2011

Take a wild guess. That is the way most of us have determined which communication or marketing plans were most effective. Now with digital marketing and the Internet everything can be easily tracked. You can determine which communication methods actually work and which are ignored without tying up hours of staff time and spending scads [...]

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PayPal Predicts The End of the Wallet By 2015

July 2, 2011

Hmmm
“We believe that by 2015 digital currency will be accepted everywhere in the U.S. -– from your local corner store to Walmart. We will no longer need to carry a wallet.”
via PayPal Predicts The End of the Wallet By 2015.

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The Top 7 Stupidest Things Believed by Bad Companies

May 11, 2011

A new business blog from Forbes.
If you’ve ever watched Kitchen Nightmares you know that the biggest mistake most restaurants make is having too large a menu. Chef Gordon Ramsey always pares that menu down – often over the protests of the owners — to a few things the restaurant is good at. The message is to [...]

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Paperless Records Tip

April 27, 2011

Insurance CDT codes are set up by procedure and are designed primarily to track fees. However, in real life in the dental office we work on appointments not just codes. Many procedures require multiple appointments to complete. For example a traditional crown (not CAD CAM) includes a preparation and then a delivery. A denture requires impressions [...]

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What I Am Reading Right Now

February 7, 2011

 
Recomended by Rich Madow

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HealthVault and Dental Optimizer

June 23, 2010

I found this on Dental Blogs. This was the first I had heard of Microsoft HealthVault. It is a free web service that allows you to store personal health information and gives consumers (patients?) access to various health advice, like how to loose weight or keep your teeth healthy. Once your health records are online you [...]

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Scientist gets a billion pages on one chip

May 6, 2010

The article linked here is overly geeky and most dentists may not bother to check it out..but it just makes my nerdy heart tingle. The basics are that researches are using nano tech to replace traditional mechanical storage (than means a hard drive) with solid state electronic storage that will store more faster and cheaper.
Remember when [...]

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5 Simple Ways You Can Go Paperless

May 6, 2010

This article from American Express has some very good advice. One I had not heard about before is # 4 EchoSign for online forms and signatures.
Sometimes, it’s just that old habits die hard.
However, there are software solutions to some old paper problems that don’t require the network infrastructure of a large corporation. And making a small technology [...]

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DoctorBase

March 24, 2010

I just had a quick tutorial on another online marketing service called DoctorBase. It is linked below. The focus of DoctorBase is not neccesarily to get your practice web site high on the Google ranking but to get web surfers to a landing page that is designed to get theses potential patients to follow up with a phone [...]

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