“Dentix is a Global Dental Electronic Health Record platform that allows blockchain backed, secure health record keeping, two-way doctor-patient communication, payment processing and worldwide patient referral and secure chart transfers.”
What is a Dental Electronic Health Record?
The American Dental Association refers to dental electronic health records as the, “complete electronic patient record, or the information systems designed to create, manage, and store information associated with an electronic patient record”. Many dentists have moved to a computerized practice where software is used for practice-management, work flow, billing and insurance purposes. Such software systems may adequately record the financial information that is required for processing dental insurance and patient billing; however, most practices do not electronically record clinical findings, progress notes, and other detailed information adequately enough to eliminate the use of all paper records.
Electronic health record software systems were adopted by dental practices in the early 1980s and have continually improved over time with new software packages, increased computer power and storage. Similarly, dental procedures have continued to improve with advancements, new treatments, innovations and new dental techniques and procedures. And in turn there are more detailed health information records that require management. Older, traditional paper and film record-keeping make it nearly impossible to establish viable protocols and consistent routines for the necessary data redundancy, integrity, and information-sharing.
Electronic data recording offers a degree of accuracy and security not available by other means. A comprehensive dental electronic health record is needed for treatments, and patient tracking. Dentix is a solution for comprehensive electronic dental health records.
The Benefits of Dentix
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Immutable and Evergreen Electronic Dental Records
Electronic charting systems have come a long way in the last decade. A patient’s complete electronic dental record should have comprehensive dental data including digital X-rays, intra- and extra-oral camera stills, and scanned images appended to the clinical chart entries. All of this data can be captured in blockchain entries for each patient.
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Collating Clinical Records and Workflow
Most software systems have charting packages that can integrate the available digital-imaging technologies which can be used as inputs. And clinical records may be divided into many different parts such as health status, medication status, radiographic records, photographic records, text notes detailing progress, periodontal charts, periodontal graphs, treatment history and proposed treatment options with recommendations. Dentix acts as the hub for collating all of your personal clinical patient records using the blockchain for storage of dental patient data.
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Linking Dental Records and Health Status
With an aging population of baby boomers the health status and medication profiles of patients are increasingly complicated for dentists who must consider the overall health status when designing treatment options. Patients may have complex and varied dental needs and may be on multiple medications or may be treated by several physicians at once due to compromised health status. Existing workflow software that captures the patient’s medical conditions, medication regime, and proposed course of treatment can be included as part of the dental electronic health record and stored securely for access by the dentist.
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Improved Patient Care
The use of dental electronic records has the potential to improve care quality and patient safety by enhancing both the quantity and quality of information available to providers for decision making regarding treatments. Having records on the blockchain provides transmission and access by the patient (through their dentist) should the person or family move to a new city or country. Instant access by new dental offices with the patient’s permission will make transitions much easier.
Summary
Dentix offers a blockchain encrypted solution for storage of complete dental electronic records. The benefits are the ease of access by your dentist to accurate and detailed documentation with improved images and management compared to conventional paper-and-film records. A decentralized blockchain provides greater security and protection of patient information in the event of any type of major hazard or single computer server loss. Dentix gives dentists the ability to improve the quality of care to their patients and easily track the benefits of the care delivered using a blockchain dental health record. Patients will have the ability to pay with DNTX tokens for services.
Dentix’s ICO begins on April 1, 2018 and DNTX tokens can be purchased on their contribution website. During the ICO the cost of 1 DNTX is 0.001 ETH. The ICO runs for 30 days with a possibility of an early completion.
Dentix website: https://dentix.io/
Dentix whitepaper: https://cdn.dentix.io/docs/dentix_whitepaper_latest.pdf
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