 
							
					
														
					     by Joel Baldwin | Mar 31, 2021 | Schedule Optimization
					    
						
					
					Before the pandemic, any patient who had not been to the practice within 18 months was considered an inactive patient. Today, you can consider any patient who does not have their next appointment on the books as a candidate for reactivation. As you know, this patient...					
											
					
					
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					     by Joel Baldwin | Mar 17, 2021 | Clinical Efficiency
					    
						
					
					How many times a week do your hygienists record something like “Performed general scaling with hand instruments. Flossed all contacts” in your patients’ clinical notes? Using clinical note templates, you can easily insert standard phrases like this with a few mouse...					
											
					
					
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					     by Joel Baldwin | Mar 3, 2021 | Clinical Efficiency
					    
						
					
					A quick-pick is a helper in your clinical note templates. It is a handy list of pre-determined choices that “fill in the blank” in a clinical note sentence. Dentrix Ascend comes with a long list of quick-picks already defined, and you can create new quick-picks or...					
											
					
					
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					     by Joel Baldwin | Feb 17, 2021 | Patient Record Management
					    
						
					
					Do you have patients who have insurance coverage through a non-patient guarantor, patients who have separate accounts but share insurance coverage? How about divorced patients who do not want to share any information with the other party? Dentrix Ascend can handle all...					
											
					
					
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					     by Joel Baldwin | Feb 3, 2021 | Patient Relationship Management
					    
						
					
					Just like the oh-so-important pop-up alerts for medical conditions, your Dentrix Ascend practice management platform allows you to configure pop-ups for account notifications. These are for non-clinical purposes, such as for indicating a family has a billing problem,...					
											
					
					
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