We had a trainer come to the office Wednesday to help us learn to use the new treatment planning software called Xcpt, (pronounced accept). The developer is a periodontist from Florida. He has thought of some nice features. I need to work with it some more to determine if I really like it. The web page is here. [1]
I think some of the features are a bit awkward to use and it is mostly oriented to surgery and implants. You can download a free trial off the web site and try it yourself. Also to be really effective it needs to integrate with practice management software and digital image management including radiography. I also think the fee is hard to justify. In fact the fee is hard to find, I couldn’t find it anywhere on the web site but I believe it is about $6,000.

[1] http://www.xcpt.com/

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The following comes directly off the Iomega press release

Reliable data backups are a necessity in all businesses. Yet the most common storage alternatives have limitations as backup devices. Optical drives have weaknesses of reliability, capacity, and speed.  Hard drives are not an archive medium and compared to a REV disk, they have weaknesses of shock and vibration reliability and expandability. Tape drives, which are designed for backup, require regular head cleaning and have weaknesses of drive cost, speed, and reliability. The tapes themselves require periodic tape re-tensioning and careful storage.
Compared to these options, Iomega’s REV products are a uniquely simple and reliable backup technology. Designed to provide the performance of a hard drive with the removability of tape, the REV technology has garnered many industry awards as an ideal tape-replacement solution for SMBs because of its durability, rewritability, reliability, and excellent price-performance.
This is not inexpensive. The Rev drive is $600 and the disks are $70 ea. Look here [1] for details. Iomega has identified health care specifically as an industry that would benefit from the Rev system.

[1] http://www.iomega.com/na/landing.jsp

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Another patient contact service  Cellminder Inc. [1]

CellminderSM is a breakthrough solution that improves communications between health care professionals and patients, optimizes practice revenues while reducing practice costs and enhances the quality of health care services. CellminderSM provides a user-friendly software solution that combines text messaging, outbound phone calls, e-mail and regular mail into one platform that synchronizes seamlessly with many of the most popular practice management systems.
This looks a lot like Smile Reminder [2]. I have been a satisfied user of Smile Reminder for years.

[1] http://www.cellminder.com/index.cm?go=home
[2] http://www.smilereminder.com/

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/>New Features in Patterson EagleSoft Version 13.00 “ Fast CheckIn - This kiosk-style check-in center is designed for patients to enter registration information directly into the system unassisted. The patient registration form includes patient demographics, medical history, HIPAA forms and the ability to view CAESY patient education presentations. Patients can access Fast CheckIn from a desktop computer or Tablet PC. “ IntelliCare - The IntelliCare feature allows practices to create automated alerts for patients matching user-defined criteria. For example, to ensure patient X-rays are up-to-date, users can set parameters that alert them to patients without a current panoramic X-ray on file. IntelliCare message options and settings are limitless.“ Integrated Credit Card Processing - The Credit Card Integration feature accelerates the billing process by offering users the ability to obtain electronic authorizations directly from their workstations.“ Quick Reports - This feature allows users to create customized groupings of commonly used reports. With Quick Reports, batches can be created for accounting reports, patient-based reports, referral report groups and more.“ Live Video Exam in Advanced Imaging - With this feature, practitioners can record live streaming video in Advanced Imaging and save within the corresponding patient record.“ Electronic Attachments - Charts, X-rays and other patient records can be submitted and tracked easily and securely using the Electronic Attachments feature.
All of the above comes directly off the Patterson press release. I went to the web site here [1] and was disappointed to see nothing about the new version in fact it looks like nothing has been updated since February.

[1] http://patterson.eaglesoft.net/index.htm

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