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Dentist office goes paperless “This helps the doctor move about the practice, doing a lot of different things and seeing a lot of different people,” Robert Wood said. “An assistant could meet her in the hallway and show her an X-ray on the tablet of the patient they’re treating in one room, get a consult on it, and the doctor could continue what she was involved with without interrupting the work flow while the assistant goes back to the patient and does what needs to be done.”
n Prescriptions: “It used to be we would diagnose a patient in the treatment room, then the staff would print out a prescription up front, track down the doctor for a signature, get it on the fax machine and send it out to the pharmacy,” Robert Wood said. Now, using the tablets, Robin Wood can bring up a prescription, sign it electronically, send it directly to a pharmacy’s fax machine, then electronically attach it to the patient’s file. She receives an electronic confirmation via e-mail that the pharmacy received it. “The system improves tracking and eliminates a patient needing to spend time taking a prescription into a pharmacy and waiting to get it filled,” Robert Wood said. n Patient involvement: The tablets allow for electronic charting and pulling up X-rays on a viewing monitor so the patient can see them right from the treatment chair. “With traditional film X-rays, using bitewings, it was hard to determine on a piece of film because it was so small you can’t as accurately diagnose, and the patient had no idea what they were supposed to be seeing,” Robert Wood said. “But using this system, we can enlarge it to see every little pixel, and they become involved in the treatment. Using intra-oral cameras, which are on a little wand, we can provide them electronic close-up shots of the inside of their mouth, a tour, that they would have never had access to before.” 
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