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8 years later, here is a screenshot of the form. I have been using a more thorough paper form, but with the coronavirus, I am re-exploring electronic check in procedures.

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That is really cool.

I just put my drivers license under a free QR reader app on my phone and it spit out all my identifiers from the front of the card so it would probably be pretty easy to incorporate that into eClipboard. Saving data entry by patients and staff is always nice.

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For months I had an issue on my office computer that 75% of the time that I was viewing a pdf in the images module, OD would just dissapear (crash and close without any messages) and I would have to open it again. Sometimes frustratingly comical- opening and crashing -over and over. I tried turning ...

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I looked for that and could not find a way to switch "on the fly". Looks to me that you have to change the default in the email setup to change it each time. That is why it is nice to use mdofficemail, because you can just include "::" in the subject line and it gets sent unencrypted as a regular em...

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Holy Grail for HIPAA email and fax! I have avoided using HIPAA email solutions because I like the easy built in email set up in OD. We avoided sending any PHI but still want to seal up any possible cracks. I was looking at mdofficemail and found that not only do they allow an SSL email connection (h...

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We are running into issues with some medicaid claims that are supposed to be marked as "EPSDT". I don't understand it completely, but it apparently means that a procedure should be covered as "medically necessary" even if it normally isn't covered. The ADA 2012 claim form has a box for it in the upp...

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I created a new image folder called "referral image". What we do is that we copy the image we want to show in the sheet into this folder. You could mount your panorex and periapicals or Bt Wgs in your imaging software and then import it or copy and paste it into the folder. When you design your she...

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I like the addition of the ability to incorporate images into sheets. Unfortunately I can't find any documentation on how it works. I added 2 Pat Image items to a sheet and tested it with a patient that had 6 PAs in the Radiology category in the images. It appears to grab the most recent image and p...

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Wow! Finally synology upgraded to mysql 5.5! I tried for a several times over the last couple of years to use my diskstation as my server and was stopped by that. Of course right after I break down and buy a dell server they upgrade. If the diskstation could backup to CDS (central data storage), it ...

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The adjustments and write offs should affect the total production for the month that they were entered. So with the way we do it, if we enter a payment in August it would not change the total production for July, only for August (even if the procedure was done in July). I'm not sure if there is anot...

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Jay, I haven't signed up with them yet, since I have been with crashplan, but the service is Central Data Storage. https://centraldatastorage.com/ For <25gb it is aobut $30/month and it seems pretty closed to crashplan, except they do comply with all hippa requirements including signing a "HIPPA bus...

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I just got Dragon Medical (version 11 - Medical Practice Edition) and it has been working great with open dental. I never read anything anywhere that made me confident that it would work with open dental, so I bought it with my fingers crossed. Of course the voice recognition is amazing and I think ...

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bpcomp is right, even if the pc shows up with fresh windows 7, often times it is packed full of "bloat ware" from the manufacturer like games and media software that you don't need but will destabilize and slow the computer. Unfortunately if you use the factory image to reinstall, that stuff will st...

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First! Find the Wiki... It is under the Tools Drop down menu at the top of any screen. The first thing that comes up on the big white open space is the "Home" page -----I think of the home page as the top of an expandable tree. All subsequent pages will be nested somewhere under the home page and wi...

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Yep, just yesterday an old guy said "those aren't my teeth, I don't have that many", since he did have much less and thought we had some one else's chart up.

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You can click on the top column and it will sort the results by whichever field you want. I find the most predictable sorting results by exporting the data to an excel file and sorting it in excel. Excel is pretty powerful, so you can do a lot with the data once it is in there as well.

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I am not sure what you are asking really. The default referral reports do include the amount in production and quantity of patients from each of my referrals whether they are a doctor, phonebook, google or whatever. We attach the referring dds to the patient at the first phone call and track the ref...

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Thankfully with OD, you don't have to spend $30k to find out if it is worth the cost. you could get a test conversion of another data base to try, but I would recommend just adding some test patients to the trial and see how things work. The only things that I notice regularly that are GP specific i...

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I have been using od in my OMS practice for about a year now. The bigges draw for me was the EHR certification, so i could get the $20k stimulus incentive payment for adopting it since i see enough medicaid to qualify. The zero upfront cost definately helped separate it from the oms specific softwar...

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Yeah, it works that way for me too, and when the nea request is sent it is great. The problem is half the time there is no request sent by claim connect then the insurance, usually delta, sends a letter saying they didnt get an xray or narrative. Claimconnect says it is due to delta not providing th...

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Claimconnect has not been reliable to send nea requests when they are necessary, especially with delta claims. But adding the pt manually in fast attach, i agree, is very cumbersome. Seems like a bridge should be easy to just pass the pt/insurance info to fast attach to create the pt. Over and above...

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As far as the kiosk signing goes I have a box next to every patient signature box that points to the pen icon like this: <--Click the pen icon with the mouse, then sign the signature pad attached to the computer I occasionally check to make sure the forms were signed by the patient (not their friend...

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I imagine the fees paid for support are the big contributor to the continued development of the software. I personally love the fact that new features continue to be added all the time. My fear, although unfounded, would be stagnation of the software development which would take the cutting edge nat...

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The sheets function is what I was going to use before I really understood the system of having notes attached to procedures. I think the sheets would be easier to fill out, but would require opening it up to see it rather than a running list of all the notes and procedures. For example, I will look ...

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I wanted a the same thing but i realized there may be problems with that. First, in od the deposit would show one total, and your bank statement would show two so reconciliation could be difficult. Of course od could separate them into separate deposits after 18 items, but the more difficult to prog...

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I ran into this problem because i only set up a few months pay periods whe adopting od. It took a few days before we noticed we couldnt find people's hours. I then went and added more pay periods and all the hours were already there, nothing lost. So after the initial shock i realized its not a big ...

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I had this problem multiple times and it ended up being a file pemissions issue. If you are using linux to serve your mysql folder, i would say you probably have the same problem. Even if you have set up all the correct file permissions in the past, with new versions comes new mysql data files which...

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Thanks for the advice. It seems hard to find people that do dental and medical billing anyway. I have been forced to figure out how to do it myself, which has been a difficult but empowering experience for a new guy that bought the practice with an experienced biller that did it all. A word of advic...

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Actually I just checked and there is a twain driver so you can scan directly into OD . We haven't used it that way but it is nice to know we can. I tested it once and it works well for scanning directly to OD. I am also connected to the printer through the LAN so any computer with the driver install...

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I am not sure if it scans to open dental. I havent checked for a twain driver. We have ours connected as a network printer. When we want to scan, we press the scan button on the computer, select the computer you want the pdf to be sent to, then hit start. The folder it was saved to will pop up on th...

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ditto on the s50, it is awesome. We have two and are considering another one, can't beat the speed for the price. BTW I am happy with a low cost refurbished model I got from epson.com.

I also use a scansnap s1300 which I love, but doesn't scan directly to OD

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Brother 9970CDW is a fast scanner, and although not advertised as such, it is a duplex scanner that scans both sides in one pass. The printing per page is fast, the only downside is it has a bit of a long time to first page as it "warms up". The features on this printer are endless. Like any printer...

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Check to see if there is a text box or something overlapping it. I have had a similar problem i think because the boxes are transparent in setup but opaque in use

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My billing employee quit and I was looking at what would be the most efficient way to get her work done.

I have heard of outsourcing billing to another company but don't know how this works or if it is an efficient way to go.

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I have recently noticed that our billing and income tracking has been messed up by the providers being changed when the procedures are attached to an appt. Is there a way to keep the appointment from changing the provider when procedures are added to it? Sometimes I will have a separate anesthesia p...

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A modified referral letter with signature area. Geared toward specialist response letters to referring doctors.

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We have been using the referral letter for this function and I just uploaded my sheet I use in the sharing forum. It is based off of the stock referral letter that is included in OD, but made some changes that work best for us, like a signature box and and an area at the bottom to list cc's and encl...

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I figured out the new feature that led to this behavior. If you are like me and have had a problem with this behavior, then turn off "procedure group note does aggregate" in the chart module setup.
It seems like a good feature if you need it and not really a bug.

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When creating a group note using version 12.4.13 there is an empty line created in the text box for each procedure attached. I don't see any reason for this and when using autonote the text starts several lines down from the top requiring the user to delete these empty lines. I can't remember what v...

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When the scan dialog pops up you need to change the settings for these functions, such as blank page detect and duplexing. Play with these settings to learn what they all do. Hint: if you want to keep file sizes small but want good quality you are better off using black and white with high resolutio...

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Have you tried turning the windows firewall off on the server? Also try running the program as administrator. What about anti virus software on the computers? You might try switching the antivirus off to test it. I might try setting a static ip address for the server. I havent had this problem, just...

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jsalmon, thanks for this. I can't wait to try it and free my self from the office earlier in the evening.

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Dragon Medical is probably what you would need to get best accuracy and vocabulary. it is about $1500 per user though, I am not sure if it can be used on multiple computers for the single price. It really does work amazingly well for voice recognition dictations. You can set up a phrase to make it s...

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I also get this OD error pop up when trying to open an xray, usually after working on several charts at the end of the day. I have to close OD then re-open and am able to continue to work. I don't remember what amount of memory was in use when evaluating the task manager, but I don't think the memor...

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Are you importing them under Setup - Sheets? That is how it should be done, but if you already are, maybe it is a version difference?

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you can't use check boxes or input fields on a letter which you can with a pt form. You could still do it as a letter as the entire letter is editable, where as only input fields are editable on a pt form, I do like using checkboxes though!

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self-explanatory, this is of a "patient form" type and has a signature box and place for the name of the escort as well as the populated pt info.

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This is my code list including the medical codes that I have billed in my OMS practice for the first 7 months on OD.

Of course I cannot guarantee the accuracy, but it should be a time saver to an OMS starting to use OD

**Edit was moderator removing copyright material.

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Here is my order sheet that I use for sending orders to the lab for bloodwork, orders for CT scans to radiology and pre-op orders to send to the OR or surgery center. I have created this as a referral slip, so my process is to add the lab/radiology/OR as a "referral to" and have this as the default ...

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Here is my current medical history form, modified from the one provided in a recent release. This is not quite as thorough as I have planned but I think it is much more thorough than the "stock" medical history form. Utilizes the medication, allergy and problem importation features of the recent rel...

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Teethdood,
If you reference the link you posted, that is the OEM version. Im not saying you cant use it for virtualization, but when activated it will be permanantly tied to that "hardware" and some people have had problems moving it to another host computer.

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Is there going to be any way to attach files to the sharing forum? The way it is now, it looks like it depends on the sharer to host the files. However I see a future of many broken links as the shares age. Maybe there are storage or liability concerns if they are hosted on the OD servers, which, if...

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I may be missing something, but is there a way to turn off all automatic changes to appointment length? Maybe it is just the nature of my practice, but we manually set all of our appointment lengths. It gets a little irritating to see that the appointment length has changed and often causes a schedu...

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I haven't checked to see if this is a feature request yet, but I agree this would save a lot of time. I already have about 150 referrals in my list and just created a custom referral slip, thinking that the only referral slip in my custom sheets would be the automatic default. It is a little dauntin...

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I do wish a legit retail copy was only $80, but unfortunately it is about 180. If you find it for 80 it is likely an OEM version that is made to be sold with a pc, but often sold alone. If you find a legit full retail version at that price, please share the link. Ill buy it right now. I had a loss o...

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I have read in many forums that the OEM windows versions (ie the $80 version) frequently run into activation and "authenticity" check problems when running virtually. Especially if you have to move the virtual machine to another physical machine (one of the biggest advantages of using a virtual mach...

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I looked this up on the topaz website and they said the battery issue doesn't apply to the TS460 or the TL460. The "active" pen concept doesn't make sense since I usually sign on the pad with any piece of plastic in my hand, usually the back of a ballpoint pen. I hope it fixes it for you, but did yo...

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I agree, too informal for documented correspondence. I gave up trying to figure out how to get it to put the last name, I'll vote on this one.

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regarding the referring physician issue, we bill medical frequently but have never needed to include the referring dr on the claim. It is a box that rarely gets used. Also there are very few insurances that won't allow you to just handwrite in the items not automatically included. That being said, I...

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As far as the diagnosis codes go, the only place I have found a list is in the medical history window, where you add diagnosis or problems for the patient. No functional list that would allow selecting a diagnosis from a list for a procedure. So unfortunately I still have to keep my icd 9 book next ...

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my current setup has a speedy server running windows 7 professional. On that I have virtual box running with a virtual ubuntu server which is my file server and mysql server. my virtual server and drives are stored on two 1 Tb drives in a windows mirror (software raid 1). If my server or one of the ...

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My best advice: Set up some dummy patients, mine are Lname, Fname: test001, sample; test002, sample, etc. I told the employees to think about their most common tasks and to just open one of those charts and just go to town, reassuring them, that they won't screw anything up if they are in one of tho...

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My office was using easydental for about 15 years, but only for scheduling and billing. It was a working mess combination of paper and computer so the staff received the possibility of the change prior to implementation pretty well. My receptionist, not being a computer person, didn't look forward t...

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Well, after spending my first week on OD having one computer at a time that couldn't connect to the Share drive, I now have a virtual FreeNAS server running and all computers connected, at the same time even :D . Not sure why I had the problem, because we only have about 10 computers, but I think th...

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Are you using the qnap just to store the MySQL database? Or are you actually running the MySQL server from the qnap, so that you point your open dental workstations to the qnap for the database? I Checked qnap, and the newest MySQL version they mention is 5.1 which I don't think OD will play nice wi...

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I write a lot of prescriptions so I really wanted a seamless, but low cost solution for prescription printing. I don't know if it can get any better than this: I bought a brother 2270DW printer for about $90, it has wired and wireless networking for that price! This will be my dedicated prescription...

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I actually looked into this and almost bought hardware based on this concept. That is to have my NAS use the built in MySQL server to also serve opendental. THE PROBLEM... not even the higher end NAS's run MySQL 5, which is required, at least for the version I am using, 11.1. Once I got it all up an...

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On the Insurance Carriers topic online it says "Normally, carriers will be added to this list automatically for you." When and how is this done? My list is EMPTY! Are there lists of Insurance carriers available that I can import into my database? What about plans? Or are we doomed to fill in all of ...

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Anybody sharing their sheets out there? Seems like a lot of people are re-inventing the wheel every time they make a new sheet. A place to share these with each other would be awesome.
Is there a third party site anyone has set up to share stuff like this?

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There is password access to the open dental software, but what about the database? Are the SQL tables password encrypted in any way? I am concerned that if my server is sent for repair, or if a backup is lost, that someone could access the tables and have access to all of our patient data. This I im...

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having tight security on the sheets/forms is something I would really like to see so I could implement OD and go paperless. I also made a nice exam sheet, but was very dissapointed to find that there was apparently no way to track changes and I even deleted a form and there is no record now that it ...

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I meet all the criteria for the incentive program, so if I get OD with the EHR what is the exact software version that I have to use? I see that the current trial download is 11.0.41, is that version certified? In order to be eligible for the money I have to stick with the certified version right? D...

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