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

New Gmail Design – read carefully, the word spot is not in the title

There is simply no longer an excuse for any dental practice in Canada not to be online and connected to receive email. You may not feel the need to be involved with Google + and the social networking aspect, but the need for connectivity is without exception an integral component of dental practice………gmail may not … Read more

#1000 – from the Eretz

Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world  Tel Aviv University‘s Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine isolated oral mucosa cells and manipulated them into stem cells.  These cells do not seem to age along with the rest of our bodies,researchers say.  Read … Read more

Your browser reimagined..

I feel the need, for speed!!!! www.rockmelt.com – the future of linkage just got PHHHASSSSTTTTERRRRRR

Teledentistry – whodda thunk it eh?

FROM TOPIX Check out the video clip I remember receiving a phone call about “bottle mouth syndrome” when my daughter was in medical school at Queens and she was sent up to Sioux Lookout and environs to do a component of her residency……caught this little snippet and realized, when you live in the big smoke, … Read more

Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me…….long as you pass me….

In response to a high prevalence of neck and back pain among working dentists and dental hygienists, the dean of the University of Maryland Dental School Christian S. Stohler, DMD, DrMedDent, has launched an initiative to bring renewed attention to ergonomics into dental education. Image via Wikipedia Starting with the current semester, every incoming student … Read more

Is there a need? Indeed!!!

The Second Women’s Weekend Dental Conference was, by all accounts, and yes, I was there to experience it first-hand, a roaring success. Held in June at the White Oaks Conference Resort & Spa in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, attendees were wined, dined and educated by the best. The cherry on the sundae was the 12 CE credits … Read more