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Dr. Lou Shuman is the CEO of Cellerant Consulting Group, dentistry’s leading corporate incubator and accelerator; a venturer-in-residence at Harvard’s i-Lab; the chairman of the technology advisory board at WEO Media; a long-time contributor to Dental Products Report; and the founder and creator of the Cellerant Best of Class Technology Awards.

Articles

Curve Dental’s Jana Macon explains how cloud-based practice management software should be at the center of your dental technology integration.

Dentistry Tomorrow: Let the cloud seamlessly integrate your technologies

Lorne Lavine, DMD, founder and president of The Digital Dentist, has more than 30 years invested in the dental and dental technology fields. A graduate of USC, he earned his DMD from Boston University and completed his residency at the Eastman Dental Center in Rochester, N.Y. He received his specialty training at the University of Washington and went into private practice in Vermont until moving to California in 2002 to establish TDD, a company that focuses on the specialized technological and HIPAA needs of the dental community. He can be reached at drlavine@thedigitaldentists.com or 866-204-3398.

There are many ways to protect your dental practice’s data and online accounts, but using “2FA” can increase your security and help you sleep better at night. 

Enable two-factor authentication to protect your data

Cybersecurity best practices can, and should, be implemented by large and small dental practices, employees and individuals.

Take steps now to combat cyberattacks

Dental practices can avoid catastrophic data loss, HIPAA violations by a network failure or breach by taking the proper precautions.

8 common problems to avoid when performing network assessments

Mike Uretz is a nationally-recognized Dental software and Electronic Health Records (EHR) expert. Mike has helped hundreds of individual practices and multi-clinic groups properly evaluate and select software vendors and solutions, structure and negotiate pricing and contracts, provide implementation oversight and vendor management. Mike was a member of the Certification Commission for Health Information Technology EHR vendor certification workgroup, and has been a member of various federal and state working committees for EHR business practices and policy. Having been involved with the EHR Incentive program from day one, Mike has helped a number of states, to evaluate and select EHR vendors, structure contracts and agreements, and manage vendor issues. As co-chairman of the Best practices advisory committee for EHR Contracts, Mike has been instrumental in developing standards for structuring vendor contracts and pricing for use by state programs nationwide He is the founder and editorial director of DentalSoftwareAdvisor.com, a trusted and objective online resource on all matters related to dental software. He is also the point person for Advanstar’s coverage of dental EHRs and their evolving role in the dental industry and can be reached by e-mail at mikeu@dentalsoftwareadvisor.com.

Leading the way with rules-based features for dental software

Securing your patients’ protected health information is essential. We cover who should be on your team and which outside partners are necessary to manage your practice’s data.

Setting up a data team for your practice

Safeguarding your patients protected health information is essential to your HIPAA compliance. We share the systems and steps that should be in place to keep data properly secured.

The data protection checklist

Don’t put off your dental practice network evaluation

The Cloud-Based system you outsourced data security is more vulnerable than you might think. Here’s what you can do to protect your patients’ information and your practice’s longevity.

Data Security