May 2009 News

The Paperless Endodontic Office

By Flo Janes

We are so excited to connect with our specialty practices and show them what their Datacon systems can do. The following is a list of subjects that we will be discussing at our next study group for endodontic practices:

• Email integration with Datacon
• How to record medical history in your Datacon system
• Automated chart notes / electronic consent forms
• Items scanned into the electronic patient chart (i.e. Patient Folder)
• The many tracking reports at your disposal - for example: Referral and Recall tracking
• Flags on Accounts and Patients
• Time Clock and reports
• Digital X-rays
• Incorporating digital x-rays and intra-oral images from your Datacon system in correspondence with your patients and colleagues.

Here is what participants attending our first Oral Surgery Study Group had to say:

Donna at Dr.’s Brown and Hailey in Sacramento rated this Study Group Session a 5 out of 5, and said that it was “…informative and very relaxed, I felt I could ask questions and received answers. Not lost in the crowd.”

Socorro from Dr. Steffensen’s office in Napa rated it 5 out of 5, and said “It was a fun learning group.”

I’ll bet that users in endodontic offices can’t wait for their specialty study group meeting. The next one is scheduled for Wednesday May 27 at 9:00 am. We hope to see you all there!

CutePDF Writer for Email Attachments

By Laura Andersen

Did you know that you can send treatment plans, perio exams and a lot more via e-mail? There is a great way to send your printed documents to your PC and keep the same look as if you had printed them to your printer. The CutePDF Writer printer driver is available as a pcLink printer. To use this feature, you will first need to download the free software from www.cutepdf.com. Cute PDF will be automatically added to your list of existing printers on your PC. You can then you can print the document with your pcLink printer as a PDF file using the CutePDF driver and save the file to your PC. Once the file is saved to your PC, you will be able to send it as an attachment.

Here are the steps to send a treatment plan to a patient: From the patients treatment plan click Print, and “yes” to print, then click on pcLink Printer, then Printer setup, click on the drop-down arrow and choose the CutePDF Writer, then click on OK. A window will ask you where you want to save the document, click on Desktop and it will be saved there. To attach it to an email, just open your email program, and attach the treatment plan saved to your desktop. It’s that easy!

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