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Always enter treatment to be done in a treatment plan as soon as it it diagnosed. That makes scheduling much easier. It also allows for cost estimates. Some offices enter tx either at the time of scheduling or worse yet when it is completed.
Create treatments and codes that reflect appointments not just procedures. For example a crown is usually two appointments. The procedure code should be associated with the prep, along with the fee and the clinical notes. However the seat has no procedure code. If you create a code you can then treatment plan the visit, schedule it in a single click and add clinical procedure notes when it is done with a single click.

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Business People Liken Stress of Travel to Trip to Dentist, [1]

REDMOND, Wash., Sept. 15, 2003 — A new national survey of business travelers indicates that more than two-thirds of respondents would just as soon spend time in a dentist’s chair as go on their next business trip. The survey, being released today by Microsoft Corp.’s wholly owned subsidiary PlaceWare Inc., also indicates that almost one-fifth of people who routinely travel on the job (five or more times a year) would prefer not to do so at all.

[1] http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2003/sep03/09-15BizTravelPR.mspx

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Cadent iTero [1]
This is something very new. I have never seen it in action just found the web site??

Finally, a Digital Impression System That Fits Your Practice … and Your Budget.Designed to replace the uncomfortable and imprecise method of conventional impression taking, the Cadent iTero™ digital impression system is an exciting new technology that is light years ahead of cumbersome and expensive digital impression systems available today.

[1] http://cadentitero.com/content/dentist/

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Look here for a video [1]on some outrageously fun and extremely geeky toys.

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2082360,00.asp

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Microsoft to Make Vista Easier to Buy Online – News and Analysis by PC Magazine [1]

Microsoft to Make Vista Easier to Buy Online
By Peter Galli Microsoft is making it easier for customers to buy, upgrade and license multiple copies of Windows Vista online. The Redmond, Wash. software maker will unveil three new programs on Jan. 18 designed to give users additional flexibility in the ways they can go online to get Vista, which will be widely available on Jan. 30.

[1] http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,2085198,00.asp

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Lightyear [1] has ceased doing business as a dental radiography company. If you have a lightyear system you will need to find alternative sources of support. Suni may support the sensors but has not yet made that commitment. More to come. There is nothing at all on the web site regarding this development and the future of users???

[1] http://www.lightyeardirect.com/products/dsm_index.html

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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.
Server:  This is the main computer which stores all the data and distributes it to the other workstations. This machine should have a powerful processor, lots of memory and big dual hard drives for storage. It does not need any sound or multi-media capabilities. A server for most dental offices will cost from $3,000 to $3,500.
Business Workstations: These are the front desk stations. These will be the least powerful machines in the office. They have modest processing requirements, need virtually no hard drive storage and do not need sound or multi-media. A business workstation will cost $1,000 or less.
Clinical Workstations: These are the chairside computers and these will need to be much more powerful than the business machines. Chairside computers will be used for patient education, image management, digital radiography, cosmetic imaging, entertainment, intra-oral camera capture and much more. These machines need full multi media capability including sound, CD or DVD, powerful processors and lots of memory. A clinical workstation will cost from $1,800 to $2,200.

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Onex Healthcare Holdings, Inc., a subsidiary of Onex Corporation, has signed an agreement with Eastman Kodak Company to acquire Kodak’s Health Group. Kodak’s Health Group includes the dental, medical, molecular imaging and non-destructive testing businesses. Onex, headquartered in Toronto, is one of Canada’s largest corporations with approximately C$20 billion in annual consolidated revenues and approximately C$20 billion in consolidated assets.

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This week is the first JP Dental Mastership [1]program for 2007. I will be presenting several parts of the program and am very excited about working with this group. The meeting is in Carlsbad CA. This is a unique program that combines lectures, hands on demonstrations and clinical chairside training. There are specialized programs for every member of the team both clinical and administrative.
I will be working with the dentists. Of course we will discuss hi tech however we will also look at practice development. leadership and marketing. More later.

[1] http://www.jpconsultants.com/mastership_certification.htm

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Bill gates gave the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show [1] in Vegas. The following is from the press release.
For his final announcement, Gates was joined on stage by Ford Motor Company’s Mark Fields, to introduce the Microsoft-Ford “Sync” partnership, which promises to take the connected experience to the car. Microsoft auto software will connect devices into the vehicle allowing consumers to sync calls and other content with their car audio system. The fully upgradeable technology will be available in a dozen Ford car models this year.
 

[1] http://cesweb.org/

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