Owning your own practice might be a dream come true for dental students but balancing the responsibilities of being a dentist and a successful business owner is no easy task. A business owner has to oversee many functions including customer service, accounting, marketing, payroll, sales and many more. As a dentist with your own practice, you need…
Marketing may not be the most favorite topic for healthcare providers but it is an essential part of running your own practice. Without marketing and advertising your services, you will have a tough time getting new clients through the door
Communicating with patients is an important part of running a dental clinic. Practices have a wide range of communication channels open to them but few providers use them effectively. In fact many clinics still rely on postcards and other paper
As a dental care provider, your work doesn’t end when the patient leaves your office after a procedure. Preventive care is very important for dental health. But how many of your patients schedule their next visit and how many bother
Who is the most important person in a dental practice? Some might say the dentist or name some other employee within the clinic. After all without the dental care team, you wouldn’t have a practice in the first place! Actually
A successful dental practice is one with a great team. A lot of dentistry depends on teamwork – there are very few procedures or processes that require only a single person. Every person on that team is the face of
EHR adoption growth over the last decade has been phenomenal. Driven by government incentive programs, rising volume of patients and documentation as well as the problems which plague paper filing systems, EHR use has long since passed the tipping point.
There are certain things in life that no one enjoys doing but we do them anyway. Going to the dentist is one such thing. All of us know that regular visits to the dentist are necessary for our dental health
No practice – or for that matter any business – wants to make a bad decision when it comes to hiring employees. Unfortunately bad staffing decisions happen quite frequently in every industry. Why is it so important to avoid such
Ransomware has been around for some time but it’s grabbing headlines today for a reason. Healthcare organizations across the country are being targeted by hackers for the valuable data they store. It starts out innocently enough – someone opens an
