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Compared to Perfect

April 5, 2011

Another interesting observation from Seth Godin linked below. Godin’s observation is that we value information and entertainment (content) differently than we do say shoes or hotels. We value shoes in comparison to other shoes and the price of the options in dollars. We value content in comparison to perfection.
I believe we could make a similar case for how [...]

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Re-activate non responsive patients

March 3, 2011

Practice Activatoris an online e-service that contacts and re-activates non-responsive patients. This is not a new idea, what is new are the tools that ActionRun has developed and applied to this task.
Early attempts to use digital technology to re-activate patients simply automated the tasks we had sought to do with paper records. That is to [...]

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Practice Activator

February 12, 2011
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Digital Changes Everything

February 8, 2011

 
An introduction to the idea of the “Digital Nervous System” and how it changes everything.
More videos here.

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IT not optional

January 28, 2011

The following quote from Bill Gates has direct application to dentistry.
“Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don’t think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.”      Bill Gates (BTW the Bill Gates link takes you to other quotes.)
As dentists the vast majority of us have chosen to be both [...]

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Sally McKenzie on Websites.

November 10, 2010

Here is what Sally McKenzie had to say in her latest e-newsletter.
Certainly, in the last five years more and more practices have developed something of a website. They have the home page, maybe a few staff bios… but many practice websites are static. They get the www-dot-address, post a few things, and then seem to [...]

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XLDent Dental Software

September 7, 2010

I sometimes forget that there are some powerful dental practice management systems available besides the big three. XLDent is one of them. They have just released version 9.7 which includes enhanced real time claims processing.
The XLDent™ Suite is the first and only suite of dental software products designed for Tablet PC and wireless technologies.
via PEB dental [...]

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Digital Workflow

August 2, 2010

In many ways work flow is data flow. In the past when the data was on paper or film or even a plaster model, it (the data) could only be in one place at a time and moving it from place to place was time consuming and relatively expensive. Thus we assigned work to a [...]

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Claim your Listing

July 28, 2010

 I have written about this several times in the past Here: However it is a still a big issues most dentists know nothing about. If you have not done it recently: Google your self immediately. What do you find?  See the map like the one shown here (for Chinese food in Alameda if you are interested). [...]

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The Anti-Buzz: Smarter not Faster

June 29, 2010

Hello and welcome to the Anti-Buzz!
The buzz: Computers are useless.
The anti-buzz: Computers are fantastic.
Why: Because I said so.
OK That’s a bit of a joke but it demonstrates the idea.  Every topic I discuss will be introduced as buzz vs. anti -buzz and the “why” gets expanded out into the meat of the column. Some weeks [...]

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