Dentists ready for eHealth surgery

Please read this very carefully – I’ve been encouraging the folks on the committee to mandate encryption of records and communication in Ontario to step out from behind the curtain with no real luck.  Again, read VERY carefully and note who the responsibility falls to to ensure success of encryption. Dental is one of the … Read more

RecordLinc Enables Sharing of Patient Dental Records to Maximize Quality of Patient Care

By Marty Jablow SILICON VALLEY, CA (November 3, 2011) – RecordLinc Inc., a company created by dental professionals dedicated to providing communication solutions for fellow dental professionals, has released an innovative electronic dental record solution for patient file-sharing, dentist-to-dentist communication, and dental practitioner collaboration that will increase efficiency and improve patient care.   RecordLinc software creates a bridge between dental … Read more

Shifting encryption gears

It seems unlikely that those who are working with the RCDSOntario will choose to enter a constructive dialogue on encryption and the drive to mandate, quelle domage or fromage, never did do well in French. SLIPSTREAM Just Give Me the Right to Be Forgotten By NATASHA SINGER Published: August 20, 2011 RECOMMEND TWITTER LINKEDIN SIGN … Read more

Q&A: Blumenthal Talks EHRs, Healthcare Reform

This discourse needs to continue. The offer remains on the table or in this case the tablet…..this blog, any blog is a forum for dialogue. It will be handled with professionalism and respect……………mandated encryption in Ontario will likely lead to the same across Canada…….transparency should be expected from the process……. President Obama’s former national coordinator … Read more

Primer on dental data encryption – going paperless – from the ADA

DENTAL ENCRYPTION DUDES at the RCDSO – come out, come out whereever you are.  This need not turn into a Rick Perry, Jan Brewer debate, because the taunting is simply to get you lads to COMMENT………the erudition will come from the content you provide in response or advocacy, but do consider responding.  You are going … Read more

Push For Electronic Medical Records Must Slow Down, For Security’s Sake

I am not decrying the need to encrypt, simply concerned that the cart is typically being put way before the horse and the horse will get a hernia trying to push, not pull. “I look forward to medical records going electronic,” said Howard Schmidt, the former White House cybersecurity czar, “but I have a tremendous amount … Read more

Transmitting Medical Records … The Ins and Outs

Persistence………….I’m sure the root word is PEST………..for your consideration……. You’ve asked your legal assistant to retrieve medical records for a court case and then email you a copy at your home email address so that you can work on the case from home. Not a problem, right? It depends. Email is not an inherently secure … Read more

Series on Encryption – the Good, the Bad and the Ugly

Can’t seem to tweak the folks who are getting encryption MANDATED in Ontario to comment on their quest, so if you can lead the horse to the podium and make it speak, you undertake to open up the conversation and get a dialogue going. GOING TO THE GORGLE – or to GOOGLE a variety of … Read more

The death knell of the one day convention has been sounded!

Please check out the image and visit http://microscopedentistry.com/meeting11/ – then visit – https://public.me.com/ken.serota160 Public Folder and look for Foundations and Expansions yadda yadda or hit files.me.com/ken.serota160/z0eqz8.mov and see what happens!!! This is the first online (sorry about the bold – it’s Moveable Type and I can only be a pest for so long) convention – … Read more

Cypher me this Batman

This will either be a huge harangue at the horror being visited upon Ontario dentists in regards to mandated encryption, or a reference to the algorithm of success that the MB2 canal generates in regard to treatment outcome – see HRH Stephen L. Buchanan article in Dentistry Today Catalogue of dental products and supporting literature. … Read more

AIDS: Pioneering dentist looks back on early hysteria around HIV and AIDS

By Tully Satre In 1998, Mayor Richard M. Daley completed a multi-million dollar restoration on Halsted Street with nearly two-dozen rainbow-linked bronze pylons. One of the unique charms of the city in the past decade and a half has been its official nod towards the vibrant gay community. Seeing a street lined with monuments that … Read more

R.I.P. Andy Rooney

God bless Andy Rooney for reinvigorating the premise behind and advocacy of the inveterate curmudgeon……he spoke his mind, got in endless trouble for it and was even suspended at one time from 60 minutes, but the lad knew how to gripe and grumble on a level that no one ever achieved………ergo, this entry…Michael Zuk, a … Read more

There is a god; we made the New York Times Sunday Review

IT’S become commonplace to criticize the “Occupy” movement for failing to offer an alternative vision. But the thousands of activists in the streets of New York and London aren’t the only ones lacking perspective: economists, to whom we might expect to turn for such vision, have long since given up thinking in terms of economic … Read more

Retirees – so much to offer, but how?

You’re a retired dentist, now what……….golf, travel, trophy wife??? It boggles the mind that a vast reservoir of applied science and knowledge is about to depart our profession in droves…………….consider the obvious…………….. Grab a peak at http://www.newmiled.com/nme/955 – and find a vehicle, an association, an institution to support what is being described for DENTISTRY – in … Read more

BlogWorld Expo Features Social Media In Health Care

If you’re reading this, you’ve been blogged Social media has changed the landscape in health care.  Social media is a powerful and phenomenal platform to help educate consumers, raise awareness of health issues and connect with consumers and colleagues. Social media gives a voice to patients and consumers and it allows the conversation to get … Read more

Researchers develop software to improve attachment for dental crowns

From Dental Tribune GOTHENBURG, Sweden: Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Gothenburg are currently developing a method to determine exactly how a tooth should be ground down in order to attach a dental crown to it. The method is expected to result in significantly cheaper and faster treatment, with a reduced risk of patients … Read more

Peri-implantitis in a specialist clinic of periodontology. Clinical features and risk indicators.

Swed Dent J 2010;34(2):53-61 Carcuac O, Jansson L. Source Department of Periodontology at Kista-Skanstull, Folktandvården i Stockholms Iän AB, Stockholm,Sweden. Abstract Implant therapy has become a widely recognized treatment alternative for replacing missing teeth. Several long term follow-up studies have shown that the survival rate is high. However, complications may appear and risk indcators associated … Read more

Antibiotics: Use and misuse in pediatric dentistry

From Marty Jablow DMD – Dental News and Technology Peedikayil FC. Antibiotics: Use and misuse in pediatric dentistry. J Indian Soc Pedod Prev Dent 2011;29:282-7  Antibiotics are commonly used in dentistry for prophylactic as well as for therapeutic purposes. Most often antibiotics are used in unwarranted situations, which may give rise to resistant bacterial strains. … Read more