This is old news. But time flies, and 2014 is only getting closer. The National Health Information Infrastructure, an organization focused on improving US healthcare, wants medical records to be electronic by 2014. Read more about the program here:
100-pg guide
Power Point that explains the vision
ADA’s view in JADA (2004)
Article on measuring progress
For EHRs, digital radiography [...]

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By now all dental offices should have and see the value of a web site. A really nice, flashy web site is terrific BUT if no one ever finds it what good is it to the bottom dollar of your practice. You have to know how to drive the general public to your site so [...]

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I had the opportunity to test drive Kodak’s new dental digital camera setup.  Kodak even changed the designed based on our imput.  I must tell you the system is slick and easy to use.  Even though I prefer d-SLR’s to point and shoot setups,  I remain confident that both doctor and team will find this [...]

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I covered the exhibit floor at the AACD meeting in San Diego in May 2006 and found the best new and innovative products.  This podcast is a series of five minute interviews with the representatives of these products.  There is information on web sites, electronic patient communication, skin treatments, digital photography, new whitening systems, electronic [...]

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It is easy to take for granted that your memory card will perform perfectly every time you shoot a picture.  There is nothing more frustrating than shooting pictures and not being able to download your images.  If this has not happened to you yet don’t worry, it will if you don’t follow some easy steps [...]

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When Kodak announced several months ago that they would stop making black and white film, the avalanch was started.  Now the news that Minolta and Konica are departing from the photo industry.  Nikon also announced is dropping most of their 35mm SLR and manual focus lenses.  It appears that after a half of a decade,  [...]

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< ?xml:namespace prefix ="" st1 ns ="" "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />ST. PAUL, Minn. – (Jan. 24, 2006) – Patterson Dental Supply, Inc. and Dental Learning Centers (DLC) have partnered to supply dental offices with a complete [...]

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It is time of the year when in some practices things slow down. I have never really figured out why; maybe because of tax time or maybe it is an after the Holiday lull. There have always been things you can do, chart audits, special discount offers, email reminders of unfinished treatment plans, etc. Well [...]

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 This is a case I did yesterday. Lady could only afford to pay for wax blueprint and 3 composite veneers. This case tool me a little over an hour. We scheduled an hour and a half but we finished way early. The key is to have a wax blueprint and then make the stint with [...]

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 This is a photo shoot I did last week for Anna. She is a model that will be going to France and Milan next year. She needed some updated photos for her portfolio so she hired me to take some. This shoot does not have anything directly to do with dentistry as I was hired [...]

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