Management

With much confusion out there in regards to what teledentistry technology can and should accomplish, it’s important to navigate the maze of the growing number of vendors and solutions available.

Awrel has introduced its new Emergency Dental Virtual Assistant, a chatbot that gives patients 24/7 access to screening and question-answering tools.

Apteryx Imaging to be acquired by Planet DDS. With the transaction, the largest independent provider of cloud-native practice management software to the dental industry expands.

Dental Products Report Managing Editor Stan Goff talks with American Association of Dental Office Management Founder and President Heather Colicchio about what practice managers have been doing while shut down and how the COVID-19 pandemic is impact the business and operations of dental practices.

Dentistry is a complicated and challenging industry. Because this career is entrepreneurial by nature, we should be teaching dental students not only how to dream, but also how to run a business.

Here's what you should be asking yourself to determine if you're a good boss.

Dental practices can avoid catastrophic data loss, HIPAA violations by a network failure or breach by taking the proper precautions.

How sales training from MGE Management Experts helped one dentist raise his collections by 500 percent.

Hiring the right person is an art, but unfortunately not an easy one.

Acquiring practices that are low gross revenue/ start-ups or high grossing-which makes the most sense and why?

ental practices often treat payment posting as an “out of sight, out of mind” activity. But the inefficiencies associated with manual payment posting result in more than lost productivity and higher transaction costs.

Patient attrition, otherwise known as lost patients, is one of the most important factors in figuring out how to improve short and long-term practice production.

While it is still possible for an individual dentist to successfully run an office independent of a greater corporate structure, today, private equity is recognizing the value of combining dental practices to create economies of scale, generate greater wealth for all concerned, and provide a solid return on their investment.

Don’t send a general business evaluator to prepare a dental practice valuation for any topic unique to dentistry.

For over 20 years, HIPAA has required you to protect the private health records of your patients. However, few practices have security that is 100 percent up-to-date on the rules and regulations that apply to data protection-a mistake that could cost hundreds of thousands of dollars (or more) in penalties and other fees. Here's a closer look at what you need to know about the federal law.

Real-time staffing service onDiem delivers quality employees to dental practices, and health benefits to those employees.

Free payment tool from Simplifeye helps eliminate front desk stress and create significant savings for the dental practice.

Can you stop problems from happening? Of course not. But you certainly manage them.

It may come as a surprise, but there are only a few key factors that make top-tier practices stand out from the pack.

The workplace can be a hostile battleground. Here's how to navigate a tension-filled office.