I make it my mission to find ways to improve both personal and professional processes on a regular basis. From time to time, my passion to use technology to create efficiency and fun finds its way into the actions of my young children. Just today, I caught my three-year-old taking pretend photos with her toy cellphone. She will point her phone in the direction of her subject, direct them to say cheese, mimic the sound of the camera shutter with a click, then tell her subject just how peeeer-fect the photo turned out. As an overeager mother who takes a ton of pictures using my own personal cellphone, I know just where she has learned this little trick.

Little-known tricks are always out there to learn. One of my favorite quick tricks in Easy Dental involves accessing family appointment dates and times from the More Information screen. The ability to view family appointment times in a single screen becomes incredibly convenient when a parent calls the office to schedule appointments for their children.

Try out these steps the next time you find yourself in a situation where it would be useful to know if other family members have scheduled appointments:

  1. Open the Select Patient screen from any module.
  2. Search for the family name.
  3. With a family member highlighted, click the More Info button.
  4. Click the family names at the top of the More Information screen to display dates at the bottom.

SOMETHING TO SINK YOUR TEETH INTO:

Explore what is displayed in the appointment box of the More Information window. What does the information listed here tell you about Recall? Could you use this information to help you determine when to schedule the patient’s next recall visit?

David Broom is Senior Director of Product and Business Development. David has a master’s degree in Information Technology (IT) from the University of Texas in Dallas and has more than 35 years of experience from many global companies such as Hitachi Vantara, Methode Electronics, and Keane, Inc. In his current role, he is responsible for all aspects of the product management and field service teams at Henry Schein TechCentral, which identifies the ideal advanced technologies to meet the unique needs of the dental market and ensure that dental offices are using the right IT to be more efficient and effective.