Open Dental Forum

If you decide to go down the road of implementing an interface to Twilio, I'd be happy to share the lessons we learned from implementing our automatic phone and text message module. Security was a huge concern of ours and allowing open http or https traffic between an office and an external PBX box ...

Hello, Using Navicat or MySQL Query Browser, or even a dos connection to the MySql Database, you can issue a "desc patient" command to see the required fields. For any of the required FK values, use the OD documentation to figure out what values you need: ( http://opendental.com/OpenDentalDocumentat...

MyPatientScheduler ( http://MyPatientScheduler.com ) has a new patient registration module that allows you to collect basic patient information. It can create the corresponding Open Dental patient record without requiring the frontdesk to manually type it in. New records can be created automatically...

Or one could use MyPatientScheduler ( http://mypatientscheduler.com/j/automated-confirmations ) for texting appointment reminders / confirmation requests. It automatically sends email, telephone, and SMS Text messages to patients with appointments at intervals you define. And, patients can respond t...

MyPatientScheduler's recare module can do that (http://mypatientscheduler.com/j/automated-recares). It works by allowing you to define logical groupings of procedure codes, then looking at past and future treatments to identify patients needing a recall.

If you end up going with Open Dental, you may want to consider using MyPatientScheduler ( http://MyPatientScheduler.com ) to help with your remote scheduling needs. It fully integrates with Open Dental, and will allow both patients and your office staff to make appointments from outside the office d...

We've been using Ubuntu on VMServer with various windows boxes with great success. Even Vista and Windows 7. It works extremely well. We use Ubuntu to host our web services layer for our Open Dental integration.

-Jim

You could separate the application stack even more by running two Linux VMs, one for the database server, and the other for the folders. Then keep you web services on the Windows box. This provides good database security and protects it from IIS a bit better.

-Jim

Log into root MySql account then create another dedicated account like this: mysql> grant select on opendental.* to 'newuser'@'ip_address_of_connection_point' identified by 'password'; * Replace 'newuser' with some username. * Replace 'ip_address_of_connection_point' with the IP address of the machi...

This is great addition! Can't wait to try it out. About three years ago we developed our own web services solution for our MyPatientScheduler ( http://mypatientscheduler.com/j/opendental ) integration that uses SOAP and a PHP based object relational model. Web services are definitely they way go for...