With all the updates and innovations happening at Dentrix and Henry Schein One, 2019 may very well be the year of the practice management system. Maybe you’re part of a multisite organization that is facing some administrative challenges with your current single-practice software, or maybe you’re ready to move up to the cloud for maximum device portability.
Whatever your needs are, Dentrix has a solution across 3 major platforms: Dentrix Enterprise, Dentrix Ascend, and Dentrix G7. Here are 5 things to know about each of these 3 platforms, including what's new:
Dentrix Enterprise
1. Designed for a multi-site practice - Allows the practice to transform from a single-practice operation to a multi-practice operation. The practice can have multiple providers and specialties in multiple locations, all managed from the same database.
2. Centralized Data – Patients no longer have to fill out their patient health history at each office of the multisite practice. Additionally, scheduling, billing, collections, continuing care, accounts receivable, insurance processing, and integrated third-party applications are all centralized.
3. Extensive Charting & Reporting – These features enables the practice to see what treatment plans are outstanding, so the staff can follow up with patients to schedule their pending treatment—crucial to recovering revenue.
4. Secure – Offers security options ad settings to give office managers the flexibility to assign each staff member a different ID/password and individual customized security rights. Secure data backup is set up in the cloud and onsite.
5. Excellent Support – The team at Dentrix Enterprise is trained to handle the needs of group practices. If there’s ever an issue, they can remote in immediately and take care of it.
Peer Perspective: Read why Dr. Chris Lugo chose Dentrix Enterprise for his growing multi-location practice, Puget Sound Pediatric Dentistry.
Also, find out more about the Dentrix Enterprise 8.0.9 upgrade.
Dentrix Ascend
1. Cloud-based - Dentrix Ascend enables dentists to access their data anywhere on any device. The cloud eliminates time spent worrying about software updates, backups, hardware maintenance or storage space. You don’t need to buy expensive servers or network equipment. You and your team can use the devices you prefer—from PCs to iPads—to practice dentistry the way you prefer.
2. Advanced tools - Dentrix Ascend packs advanced business, practice management, and clinical tools into an easy-to-use interface, without a steep learning curve for new users. Some of these tools include Practice Overview; Patient Overview; Clinical Chart; Practice Reports; Dentrix Ascend Imaging; and Online Booking. There are also tools specific for multiple sites, practice management, front office, and clinical.
3. Natural User Interface – Dentrix Ascend is designed to understand the user’s current focus and presents information and actions that are relevant to the activity. It then hides anything that is not helpful. The clean and simple interface not only reduces the number of options that can confuse a user, but also guides the user to the best choice through placement, color, and visual clues.
4. Streamlined workflow - Dentrix Ascend's GPS (Goals, Problems and Opportunities, Solutions and Activities) directs the workflow to achieve the most desirable state. The GPS engine assembles opportunities and solutions, and then executes commands and scheduled jobs.
5. Automation - Dentrix Ascend was designed with Task Automation Management Intelligence (TAMI), which acts like a scheduling assistant. TAMI helps the user maintain the schedule and automate scheduling tasks. It also uses the GPS engine to discover opportunities and offer solutions based on best practices. TAMI also schedules jobs that need to be done in the background.
Watch the video below to learn more about Dentrix Ascend.
Dentrix G7
Dentrix G7 provides offices with comprehensive software that’s up for challenges in key areas, including clinical, front office, and practice management. Here are 5 of the ROI-improving features that span those key areas:
1. Dentrix Smart Image – Dentrix Smart Image automatically connects images with CDT codes that are then posted to the ledger, saving the staff time from manual entry and helping to ensure the office gets paid.
2. Health History Module – This allows tracking of an unlimited number of medical descriptors, now divided into 2 categories: medical conditions and allergies. Knowing more about patients’ medical conditions can help the practice quickly deliver the best clinical care.
3. Custom Appointment Lists – Don’t kill the efficiencies you gained by going digital! This tool combines several lists into one customizable and searchable list to simplify finding and scheduling appointments, improving front-office efficiencies.
4. Fill Appointment * – This feature reduces the stress of last-minute cancellations, allowing users to make a custom list of patients and send an individualized text message to each one at the same time. Users can blast information about available times to dozens of patients at once, all within Dentrix.
5. Dentrix Pay* – Henry Schein Dentrix Pay is a payment processing solution that improves cash flow with convenient payment options, saving time with seamless Dentrix integration and helping protect against lost payments. Dentrix Pay also processes all payment types and enables automatic recurring payment.
*Additional purchase required for these features
Download the Dentrix G7 Release Guide to get the full list of features and bug fixes.
You can learn about all of Dentrix’s latest innovations in the November issue of Dental Product Shopper. Also, there’s an excellent opportunity to get hands-on experience with these programs at the Greater New York Dental Meeting. Visit Henry Schein One at booth #4627 to learn more.