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When fully implemented into the workflow, an account note is a great time- and money-saver for any dental practice.

The Exam Comparison tool in Easy Dental provides one more tool in your arsenal for battling periodontal disease. The visuals will engage your patient with a finer understanding of their periodontal condition.

Effective and purposeful patient alert reminders are the key element for success.

Clinical note automation is a great tool for simplifying the task of clinical note entry.

Easy Dental’s Letters utility provides just the tools you need to produce a custom list of patients.

I am here to introduce a simple, cost-saving and efficient solution for tracking outstanding receivables – the Aging Report.

The referral tracking tools in Easy Dental allow for excellent record keeping and quick reference.

The month of July brings a perfect opportunity to evaluate your production and collections for the first half of the year, not to mention a nice mid-way point for making projections for the rest of the year.

One of the key components to your insurance claim submission is your clinical narrative. It goes without saying that clinical documentation is incredibly important when it comes to timely payment from insurance. . The documentation of a clinical narrative in Easy Dental is best handled in procedure notes.

The checkout process is the moment when services are reviewed, a claim is created and payment is accepted. Easy Checkout seamlessly completes all 3 of these steps AND provides a walkout receipt with the patient’s next visit printed at the bottom.

Active patient count is defined as the number of patients with at least one visit to your dental practice in a specified time frame, typically 18 months. The active patient count is a valuable number which can be used to calculate practice staffing needs in addition to prospective annual production totals.

Providing your patient with an accurate estimation of insurance coverage is pivotal to keeping the patient happy long term.

When was the last time you reviewed your office fees? More often than not, the answer is that this process was last considered years ago.

The Prescriptions module in Easy Dental is designed to give you quick access to patient prescription history as well as the ability to create new prescriptions for patients.

Incorporating chartless techniques into a daily routine can feel overwhelming at times. The key to perfecting the art of charting procedures is implementing tools that will guide you in the most efficient way possible.

By following these 3 simple steps to collecting for today’s services, you can help your practice grow to new heights. Collecting today simplifies your billing and collection procedures down the road.

In order for the insurance company to release a patient’s benefit payment directly to your office, you are required to obtain the patient’s consent. Many dentists choose to incorporate these written consents into their patient information forms, more commonly referred to as new patient paperwork.

Today I wish to share with you a fantastic location to place a daily note–the note field in the Schedule module.

The first shortcut your scheduling team will be looking for is the quickest way to find open time in the schedule, and Easy Dental has just the tools to improve your scheduling process.

I spent a few days this week working with an office that has been using Easy Dental for 8 years now and, up until this week, they were primarily using Easy Dental for billing and insurance claims. When I first entered the office, the entire team (mind you this was a...

One of my favorite quick tricks in Easy Dental involves accessing family appointment dates and times from the More Information screen.

An automated recall system is often the least understood and most underutilized tool within the Easy Dental software. The Easy Dental recall tool is quick to customize, simple to implement and creates an efficiency for tracking recalls that is unmatched by any paper documentation system.

Keyboard shortcuts are a great avenue for enhancing your data entry processes in Easy Dental. Simply eliminating the time it takes to grab the computer mouse, locate the cursor on the screen and identify the button you wish to click can allow you to process functions with timely, efficient ease.

Computers today have taught us that new information and ideas are only a Google search away. I am 100 percent guilty when it comes to routinely seeking answers on the information highway. With the capability to search virtually any keyword to find the definition by Wikipedia, a video on YouTube, pictures posted around the web and even shopping locations, you will never come up short on details. So when it comes to Easy Dental, why should it be any different?

In a perfect world, all dental insurance claims would pay within five days. The sun would always shine, appointment schedules would be forever full, rainbows would soar across the sky—and insurance eligibility would be easy. It is true that we do not live in a perfect world, but I firmly believe that I am responsible for enhancing my own personal surroundings and processes. So when I was presented years ago with the task of developing a protocol for an office that would ensure fewer insurance claim denials, it was then that I discovered the art of checking patient insurance eligibility.

The famous radio personality Earl Nightingale coined the phrase, “People with goals succeed because they know where they are going.” Within a dental practice, there can be many different types of goals set for the team. One of the most common is production goals. Production goals are more than just a number—they can be a source of growth in many areas of the practice. Production goals can incite…