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What is Dental IT and Its Use?

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Dillon Dental Networks - A company specializing in dental managed IT services. What is Dental IT and Its Use? Dentist Using a Dental Imaging Software What is Dental IT? Dental IT is the technology that enables dental offices to provide the best care possible for their patients. Dental IT includes services such as x-ray machines, digital radiography systems, dental lasers, intraoral cameras, and microscopes. Dental IT can also be used not only to diagnose, track and treat patients but also in managing your dental staff.  One of its most important tasks for society is to provide dental services with efficiency and expediency, while also reducing costs. Dental information systems are often used in this task, as they allow dentists to manage oral health more effectively by providing a vast amount of data at any given time without having to go through multiple sources.  Dentists are at the forefront of advancing technology, and it is exciting to see what future developme...

Securing Protected Health Information in Dental Offices

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Dillon Dental Networks - A company specializing in dental managed IT services. Securing Protected Health Information in Dental Offices Protected Health Information of a Dental Patient What is Protected Health Information or PHI? Protected health information includes all individually identifiable healthcare data which is often demographic, medical histories, test results, and insurance. This can include everything from your own personal details to more general things like what kind of diagnosis you’ve had or if the treatment was successful. PHI only relates to information on patients or health plan members. It does not include information contained in educational and employment records, that includes health information maintained by a HIPAA covered entity in its capacity as an employer. ‘Protected’ means that this info is protected under HIPAA Privacy Rule – meaning it’s only been shared with those who have a right to know as well as any other people in charge of your care at...