dental informatics

..CDS has its greatest potential at the point of care where it can facilitate good-quality evidence-based decision-making...

..This article describes a practical proposal that integrates 2 existing standards, HL7 and DICOM, to create a standard for electronic orthodontic patient records...

b>Dental Informatics (DI) is the application of computer and information science to improve dental practice, research, education, and program administration...

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..The network security protocols discussed comply with HIPAA regulations and boost the efficiency of a modern orthodontic clinic...

..This study documents the use of an EPR system to objectively and efficiently assess one aspect of quality of care in a dental school environment...

..three by deans, and ten by instructional technology (IT) managers, IT committee chairs, or directors of dental informatics departments...

..The author reviewed usage of services for 1988-1998 to analyze use by alumni and nonalumni and to determine possible trends...

b>Dental informatics is a young scientific discipline that is undergoing continual maturation...

..health services researchers; health educators; and specialists in utilization review/outcomes assessment, dental informatics, nutrition, program evaluation, and prevention...

The "informatics revolution" in both bioinformatics and dental informatics will eventually change the way we practice dentistry...

..8 percent). The tooth most commonly treated was the mandibular first molar (20.1 percent). Procedural errors were found in 6.1 percent of cases and were more likely to occur in mandibular molars vs. maxillary molars...

..In the process, we transition from a focus on IT-the mere technical aspects of applying computer technology-to one on informatics: the what, how, and why of managing information...

..This study was designed to test a cumulative view of current data in the clinical database at the Faculty of Dentistry, Dalhousie University. We planned to examine associations among demographic factors and treatments...

..To determine, by postal questionnaire, the demographic profile and practising details of general dental practitioners in the UK in 2008...

..If current barriers and obstacles are overcome, practice and research in oral medicine stand ready to derive significant benefits from the application of information technology...

..The consortium is in the process of assembling the largest oral health database ever created. This will be an invaluable resource for research and provide a foundation for evidence-based dentistry for years to come...

..of the medical informatics family, and as such is younger than health informatics, nursing informatics, and dental informatics. It's task is to assist biologists and medical doctors to recognize and interfere the human life information ..

..Further studies should investigate the feasibility of electronic clinical data for research purposes...

..As the school looks ahead to a new building by 2012, additional advances and innovations are planned to follow. This article takes a look at the past, present, and future contributions by UTDB to innovation in dental education...

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..HITS integration into patient care impacts the work of all system users, especially end-users. The themes highlight areas of potential concern for implementers and users in integrating a HITS into patient care...

..The ability to access, evaluate and apply new knowledge for the benefit of patients has been acknowledged as an important goal for dental education. Information literacy is key to achieving this...

..This article challenges one to begin including the laboratory early in the process and routinely use reliable techniques to transfer clinically significant information to the laboratory bench...

..Numerous methods have been developed for recording cleft lip and palate deformities, but none has been universally accepted due to limitations, inadequate description of the cleft deformities, and varying complexity...

..However, relatively little is known about what clinical data practitioners keep on their computers regarding patients...

b>Dental informatics is an emerging field that has the potential to transform the dental profession...

..S. dental schools is discussed, concluding with a plea to find a better way so that the good works of dental educators and their students can be more evident...

..In October, 2006, The American Dental Association (ADA) Standards Committee on Dental Informatics (SCDI) Joint Working Group 10...

..The objective of this study was to evaluate and compare visible and near infrared detection methods for identifying early non-cavitated ex vivo occlusal demineralization...

..The results showed that feature selection improved classification accuracy while simultaneously determining which measurements were relevant. ..

..This descriptive article presents an overview of the experiences involved in developing this COI and provides a conceptual framework for an online COI...

..This article attempts to review the evolution and progress of dental informatics as a specialty and its applications in oral pathology.

..However, a necessary first step involves developing procedures to identify messages that are worth studying given our resources for planned, labor-intensive research...

..We conclude that salivary biomarkers detected by high-resolution mass spectrometry coupled with powerful bioinformatic tools offer the potential to serve as diagnostic/prognostic tools for SjS...

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..Patient education should be meaningfully integrated into the workflow shared by dentists, their team members and patients, in order to maximize its outcomes...

..This narrative review aims to highlight sources of the best available evidence and describe primary clinical trials currently taking place in primary dental care across the United Kingdom which will add to the evidence base...

..The habits of newer graduates vary somewhat from those of earlier graduates; the habits of specialists vary from those of general practitioners...

..By sharing lessons learned and knowledge about the science of implementation, we hope to reduce failures and costs for dental schools embarking on large-scale information technology implementations...

..This paper first gives an overview of a sequential processing and then applies the resulting model to the particular case...

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..001). As information technology has turned into an ever more necessary working tool in epidemiology, there should be an important potential for uptake of further improvements in electronic data capture in the future...

..Conclusion Current dental software could be significantly improved with regard to its support for communication and collaboration, workflow, information design and presentation, information content, and data entry...

..The usability of dental computer-based patient record (CPR) systems has not been studied, despite early evidence that poor usability is a problem for dental CPR system users at multiple levels...

..The past, present, and future of dental office computer systems is explored in this article. An understanding of the benefits and current challenges of contemporary dental practice software is also reviewed...

..It enables the specialist located many miles away to make a diagnosis and recommend treatment options and/or referral...

..With the explosion in the use of information technology within a dental office, this web-site will serve as the one-stop resource for credible scientific information for practitioners...

..Sources of summarized evidence are mentioned that can be accessed via the Internet, especially those that summarize evidence of the greatest research rigor that have been summarized systematically...

..This article introduces the basic skills of evidence-based dentistry. Their practice requires a discipline of lifelong learning in which recent and relevant scientific evidence are translated into practical clinical applications...

..Survey results are used to examine characteristics and to compare the charitable care rendered by practicing prosthodontists to the dental field at large...

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..Examples of ways in which clinical trials of other diseases have benefited from the use of new methods and technologies and FDA considerations were also discussed...

..The benefits and barriers to adoption of online records will be presented to provide a frame of reference for the next major shift in electronic communication...

..In particular, this article describes the first Web-based Electronic Medical Record (DocSapiens.com), which is able to view and edit DICOM files directly online...

..To synthesize currently existing data and investigate the prevalence of tooth transposition as well as its relation to gender, dental arch, and quadrant occurrence...

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..The quality of these products varies widely. Working Group 5 of the Standards Committee for Dental Informatics has published an initial set of guidelines to help course designers develop high-quality instructional ..

..Current thinking tends to focus on relatively conserved "haplotype blocks" instead of single genetic markers, although there is no consensus on the utility of this emphasis...

..The ADA sponsors standards programs for all areas of dentistry, including dental materials and products and dental informatics. ANSI/ADA Specification No...

This study investigated knowledge, opinions, and experience regarding dental informatics and computers among first-year dental students (D1s) and fourth-year dental students (D4s).

..More systematic reviews related to orthodontic topics are published each year, although little has been done to evaluate their search and selection methodologies...

..The design of tele-educational system could serve as a model for self-evaluation of interpreting skills in dental tumor images as part of Continuous Medical Education (CME) in the future...

..Furthermore, the role of dentistry in shared-care environments is discussed and illustrated in the form of a future scenario...

..Dentists report that the complexity and poor usability of practice management systems (PMSs) are factors in the slow adoption of computers at chairside...

..No studies have investigated the inclusion of a three-dimensional (3-D) charting interface in a general dental record...

..Introduction of a new grid-based method for analyzing speech functions which takes into account the related information of patients' data and the oral air flow with pronouncing analyzed by computational fluid dynamics...

b>Dental informatics is a relatively new field that has significant potential for supporting clinical care. Most dentists are unaware of what dental informatics is, what its goals are, what it has achieved and how they can get involved in it...

..A quality matrix identifies target values for dental informatics while demonstrating an "importance-weighting" of dental characteristics.

..One of its subdisciplines, dental informatics, is beginning to emerge as its own entity...

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b>Dental informatics is an emerging discipline applying computer and information science to dental practice, research, education, and management. To date, the dental informatics research literature has not been comprehensively reviewed...

..This paper discusses the role of dental informatics research vis-à-vis the doctor-patient relationship and explores how it may inform the next generation of ..

..To date, dentistry's integration into this network has not been discussed widely...

..The new enterprise-level gadgets that use third-generation technologies are also introduced...

..In this study, the applicability of CBA methods in dentomaxillofacial radiology is evaluated...

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..The change in the delivery method influenced the students' comprehension of the material negatively and the learning environment positively, but did not influence online collaboration among students...

..Dental Branch about evidence-based dentistry, search strategies, critical appraisal of the literature, and dental informatics. Students learned to develop a clinical question, conduct a search to find answers to that question, and ..

..Over the longer term, future informatics tools, combined with other medical and dental technology modalities, promise more adaptive, patient-focused and efficient healthcare and education for the practitioner and the patient...

..Additionally, we also offer specialized research training in dental informatics. Students in our T15-funded training program may pursue an MS or PhD in Biomedical Informatics, an MS or PhD ..

..structure will include a Practitioner Steering Committee, Regional Directors Committee, Director of Dental Informatics, Director of Communications &Dissemination, Director of Practitioner Training &Education Component, ..

..to clinical and translational research, and we propose to include new opportunities for postdoctoral dental informatics research...

The intent of this proposal is to develop a dental informatics resource to support evidence-based dental care...

With the advent of technology in teaching and learning, the exponential growth of medical and dental informatics, the dire need of specialty instructors in these fields globally, and the mandate by the Santa Fe Group encouraging a new ..

..b>Dental informatics faces two critical challenges...

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b>Dental informatics (Dl) is the application of computer and information science to improve dental practice, research, education and program administration...

..Questionnaires will include RDC/TMD axis I and II, coping strategies questionnaire, a self report fibromyalgia screening form, and IMPATH. ..