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From: Arun Welch <welch@cis.ohio-state.edu>

In-reply-to: fielding@unixg.ubc.ca's message of 22 Jan 93 20:55:52 GMT
Newsgroups: sci.med.dentistry
Subject: Re: looking for Comp Sys for Dental practices
References: <4888@seti.inria.fr> <fielding.727736152@unixg.ubc.ca>
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In <4888@seti.inria.fr> dabaghi@menusin.inria.fr (Fadi El Dabaghi) writes:

>I am looking for informations about any advanced computerized
>system for dental practices (patient's data, color or b/w graphics
>showing patients history with automatic invoicing, electronic
>appointment list, diagnostics, treatments and periodontal treatments,
>librairies,...). I have a pc (Note Star NP-913, 60 mb mem and a proc
>intel 386dx) running with Dos. 

About 2 years ago my wife (who's a dentist) asked me to help her pick
a system for her office. It's appalling how incredibly bad most of the
systems are, especially in the case of system security. If they
actually bother to use user-names and passwords they're invariably
stored in plain-text. We finally decided on SoftDent as being the
least evil of the lot, but even it's got some huge security holes.
Their support staff is pretty brain-dead too. The entire industry
seems to be built on the assumption that dentists and their staff are
computer-naive so they should take advantage of that.

I might still have the report and checksheet we used for deciding on
the system, I'll see what I can dig up. I think we looked at about
10-15 systems.

Feel free to email me if you have any questions, or if you'd like you
can ask her at jody@anzus.com.

...arun
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Arun Welch
Anzus Consulting
welch@anzus.com


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