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Get Paid

May 21, 2013

Very interesting stats from Sesame Communication research, When patients receive a finacial reminder for a past due amount and they are offered the option of paying online: Within 24 hours 38% pay the balance. Within 48 hours 50% pay the balance.

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Eight Advantages of Cloud Computing

May 10, 2013

Dentalcompare this week’s article. What the heck do people mean when they talk about cloud computing and how does that effect dentistry? …one would never display techno ignorance by being so out of it as to ask what the term “The Cloud” is actually referring to. So what does the cloud actually mean in the [...]

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11 PC Keyboard Shortcuts to Enhance Your Productivity

May 6, 2013

11 PC Keyboard Shortcuts to Enhance Your Productivity | The New OPEN Forum.

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A Car is Not Merely a Faster Horse

May 2, 2013

This week on Dentalcompare. Dentists buy the wrong technology because they are stuck in the wrong timeframe  “A car is not merely a faster horse.” E-mail is not a faster fax. Word processing is not a faster typewriter. And Google is not merely faster Yellow Pages. At the basic level this is a simple idea [...]

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Quick Dental Office Hardware Budget

April 29, 2013

The following is a rough estimate of a fully computerized general dental office with four treatment rooms. Basic Requirements Server                                                                                   $3,500 4 Treatment Rooms @ $2,200 ea.                             $8,800 2 Business @ $1,000 ea.                                                $2,000 Doctor’s Office                                                                     $1,800 Network and Setup                                                           $3,500   Total                                                                                      $19,600   Options Consultation                                                                      $1,500 Tablet                                                                                   $ 600 ea. As a [...]

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Ontario Dental Association May 2-4

April 22, 2013

I will be presenting two sessions at the Ontario Dental Association Annual Spring Meeting May 2-4 in Toronto. ASM. I am originally from Canada,I was born in Ontario so I am looking forward to “going home”.

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A New Flexible Keyboard Features Clickable Buttons

April 17, 2013

Something like this might be developed into a keyboard for the treatment rooms. It would take up very little space be easy to get out of the way and could possibly be made so that you could wipe and disinfect. A very thin keyboard that uses shape-changing polymers to replicate the feel and sound of [...]

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Changes in Hardware Change How We Practice

April 16, 2013

From my article in Sidekick Mgazine: It is no longer necessary to assign a computer to a place—the computer can be assigned to a person and it simply goes wherever the person goes. It is a bit like an old wall-mounted corded telephone and a handheld cell phone. The old wall mount is the kitchen [...]

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Paperless Process

March 29, 2013

From Dayna Johnson: One of the biggest complaints I hear from clinicians is, “I don’t have time to enter all that stuff in the computer and I am not going to stay late.” My response is, “I don’t want you to stay late. You have a family to get home to and that is why [...]

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10 Red Flags You’re About to Get Scammed

March 21, 2013

From Mashable: You should know by now that nothing on the Internet is guaranteed. Promises to boost your sex life or quick money via working from home shouldn’t be taken seriously. “Watch this video and women will adore you?” More like, “Click this link and regret it.” via 10 Red Flags You’re About to Get [...]

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Tech Matters, Dentalcompare

March 21, 2013

This week on Dentalcompare: You are confronted with these two email addresses: 2thdoc 375@aol.com Dr.Evans@evansfamilydental.com One is professional and technologically aware the other is…old fashioned. It is probably not fair but AOL is thought of as email for old people who don’t know any better. via Emmott On Technology: How A Patient Sees Dental Technology [...]

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Do You Need To Upgrade Your Technology?

March 11, 2013

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 save you money. The following five situations indicate you may need [...]

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Dental Computer Hardware

March 7, 2013

Most dental offices will need three different types of computers: a server, business workstations and clinical workstations. Each computer type will have different specifications depending on the job it must do. Specs and available options change so quickly it is more useful to present a price range for each type than component specifications. Server: This [...]

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Staff Training

March 4, 2013

Most dental office use only a fraction of their computing capacity. They have little formal training and spend practically nothing on advanced training. No wonder they never achieve all they could. Staff training is critical in three areas; getting started, moving on to advanced uses and training new staff members when they join the team. [...]

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Florida Probe Voice

February 26, 2013

At the Chicago Midwinter: Another new product I saw in Chicago was a new voice activated system from Florida Probe. Florida Probe has long been a favorite product of mine for many reasons. With the new voice system they have added a third way to input periodontal charting data to a digital patient record. Voice [...]

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i-Cat FLX

February 25, 2013

At the Chicago Midwinter: One of the most exciting new products I saw introduced at the Chicago Midwinter was the i-Cat FLX. The most significant thing that makes it exciting is that the new system allows you to take a complete 3D image at a radiation dose that is lower than a typical 2D panoramic. [...]

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Help Going Paperless

February 22, 2013

The conversion process from paper to paperless records requires three different types of help or support. Consultant: This person helps develop the plan, choose vendors, establish a budget, set up office systems, assign tasks and follow up over time to trouble shoot and assure completion of the project. Trainer: This person teaches the office staff [...]

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Why Dentrix in the Cloud is Such a Big Thing

February 20, 2013

The announcement scheduled for later this week at the Chicago Midwinter that Henry Schein and Dentrix are getting into the cloud is huge. In the US Henry Schein is the biggest dental supplier and their flagship practice management system Dentrix is the most used software Various companies have been nibbling at the edge of cloud [...]

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Dentrix Appointment Book

February 9, 2013

Coaching tip from Dentrix: What does your appointment book look like? Is it easy to see your hygienist’s next opening? Can you quickly see when your dentist has a half hour available to fit in an emergency exam? Most dentists never change the appointment book view from the day they install their dental practice management [...]

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High Tech Diagnostics

February 1, 2013

One of the most exciting areas of new product development is high tech diagnostics. The core of hi tech diagnostics is the ability to scientifically measure a biologic condition and then to convert those measurements to a digital format for analysis and recording. The result is a highly accurate and consistent measurement. One of the [...]

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