Patterson has announced the introduction of Live Help, an online support tool for EagleSoft. Live Help allows EagleSoft users to interact in real time with support specialists at the Patterson Technology Center. Patterson Dental’s Live Help support offers customers a way to quickly and easily answer their questions without picking up the phone. Users may access Live Help directly [...]
In the most literal sense to digitize something means to turn it into digits or numbers. In a more practical sense it means turning something into the electronic language a computer can understand.
Digital information can be many things including words, numbers, photos, x-rays, sounds, movies or even solid objects. Any object can be digitized by [...]
I will be traveling to Canada this week to speak in Calgary on Sept 30 and Edmonton Oct 1. If you are in the area contact Aurum dental lab for details.
From the Kodak website here How they work
The SensorsIt all starts with our exclusive sensor design, the foundation of our unique system. Our intraoral and extraoral sensors consistently provide a high-quality, film-resolution image, free from distortion and noise. The sensor records the image and transforms it into an electrical signal that is converted to binary [...]
People who drink 3 or more sugary sodas daily have 62% more dental decay, fillings and tooth loss 78% of Americans have had at least 1 cavity by age 17 90% of systemic disease have oral manifestations.You are not “to old for good dental care” the average 65 year old has 17.3 years of life [...]
I know it is possible because we have been doing it for years and the results are remarkable!
When we consult with a dental office (www.drlarryemmott.com) one of the primary goals they have is to “go paperless” Pull the chart of a patient you have been seeing for some time and see what is in there. There [...]
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New Diagnodent released in South AfricaSeptember 21st, 2005 | Posted by Tom Hedge “The new diagnodent is out - and it is better than I could have hoped for - new tip for inter prox caries, easier to set up and calibrate, and built as you would expect to [...]
Dentrix has changed the name of their stand alone imaging product from Vipersoft to Dentrix Clarity. Vipersoft was the original name of the program when Dentrix purchased Integra Medical. Vipersoft was integrated to Dentrix as Dentrix Image. The product is the same only the name has changed. Clarity is a complete image management application which [...]
Solution from PC Magazine:
By Larry Seltzer The avalanche of network security concerns today make it easy to lose focus on securing physical access to PCs. Don’t. Sensitive data may be walking out your front door.Our sister publication, eWeek, recently reported that vulnerabilities in some Windows USB device drivers could allow someone with physical access [...]
I blogged a month ago that I was planning to sell my house. It is too big for me now. Here is a link if you want to see it…..make an offer
The following example comes from a recent Emmott on Technology in office consultation
Annual $ Savings
Save 15 hours per day from single entry in the back $ 71,250
Including charting and pulling charts
Save 4 hours per day confirming patients $ 19,000
Save mailing costs on 8,000 re-call cards per year $ 8,000
Save the cost of creating and mailing 4800 statements $ [...]
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From Sally McKenzie’s e-management Newsletter see her web page here
Among the most important decisions many dental practices will make over the coming months and years is not simply whether to buy digital radiography, but which digital radiography system to buy. …… Here are some tips that I think you’ll find helpful in selecting the right digital [...]
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October 28–29Two Day Hands On Seminar It is so easy to make an expensive mistake when buying technology!This two day course is a high energy power packed program. However, attendance is limited. The sessions will be customized to the attendees so you get the most from your time and investment.
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One of the best pieces of information I picked up is that Dentrix has finally done away with the security keys or dongles that were needed to use Image. The newest release Image 4.1 does not require a dongle and it opens very quickly compared to the old system.
The Dentrix meeting was a lot of fun, and I even learned some things. Dentrix actually took us on various expeditions. I went on a marvelous hike and tour of a cave and then up to Stewart Falls above Sundance. I not only learned about Dentrix, I learned a lot about my fellow hikers, Sally McKenzie, [...]
This weekend Dentrix is sponsoring a meeting of dental computer technology leaders and practice consultants similar to the Kodak and Patterson meetings earlier in the summer. I am fortunate, I am the only person who was invited to all three of these events.
I am speaking in Puerto Rico and then off to Dentrix in Utah [...]
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KODAK is introducing the RVG 5000, a more economical system, than there existing system, the RVG 6000. This RVG 5000 has been sold in Europe and across the globe.The RVG 5000 captures 14 line pairs per millimeter, one of the highest resolution intraoral radiography systems available today. The [...]
We now have a completely paperless office. That presents a dilemma. It is no longer appropriate to say “We have to do the paperwork.” There is no paper. So what is it now? Mouse work? Electron manipulation? Work that was previously known as paper?
For several years I have been fantasizing about using a wearable computer in the dental office. We aren’t there yet but we do have two way radios with ear buds, artificial eyes, (surgical loupes) and we carry around a tablet PC connected to a wireless network. Scottevest (SeV) has pioneered the idea of technology enabled clothing. [...]