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Hey Jordan. Any updates on the eClipbard app? Is it done in development and waiting on app store approval or still has work to do? I saw the updated 24.4 beta notes included the eForms as the major update.

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Can I have a single workstation on 24.4 but not upgrade the rest of my computers in the office? Just looking to try this out in the beta version.

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Hi,

How hard would it be to duplicate an exam sheet? I'm not talking about the design of the sheet, but rather I entered all of my notes into an exam sheet and I want to duplicate it and then update any changes for my patient the next time they are in the office.

Thanks!
Dylan

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Happy to help!

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Can you make the doctor the “hygienist” in his/her column in addition to the doctor?

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Putting it into the note is mostly just for legal safety. I’m a little paranoid but that’s what you get when you come from a family (both parents, both siblings, and 2 close relatives) of attorneys. Medicaid doesn’t ask for it unless we are audited. Fortunately we’ve never been audited directly, but...

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Images or fonts would be great.

Is this a month away? A year away? Still TBD?

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I thought it would be extremely difficult. I doubt it's worth the tens if not hundreds of thousands of dollars in coding time it would take to completely revamp the way notes are configured. I think the lowest hanging fruit would just allow some sort of option in autonotes to read the patient info g...

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Fantastic! Sounds like it will be a great new foundation for all of us.

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I'm with you on the explanations. I agree it's not helpful for me as a provider to have it in the progress notes since I can just look at the patient info grid, but it's helpful to have it in the progress notes for third parties. I'm a pediatric dentist who works with Medicaid. When you look at medi...

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Anyone from OD able to give some color commentary on how hard or not this might be to do?

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Good news to hear that you are working on some things they have. I hope you get 100% there eventually in the next year or so. I really like Flex, but with the number of patients per day and number of integrations we have going on (Flex, Vyne and Zuub) it can slow down responsiveness of OD when the 3...

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Is there a way to auto-input patient information into progress notes? Age, Medical Problems, Allergies, etc? I know how to do it for exam sheets, but we use progress notes for everything so we can copy and paste findings across the years and not "loose" them with each new exam sheet.

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Their health history is amazing. It's practically a review of systems. Any heart problems? If you select no then it goes to the next system, but if you select yes it pops open with a list of the most common heart problems to select from. Comprehensive and easy to get through quickly which is a rare ...

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Will you be able to implement a feature to show or hide questions based on a parameter? E.g. We see a child under age 3. We need to ask about pacifier, bottle/nursing habits, etc. We don't need to ask those things for a teenager in our practice. We also have certain questions (50+?) we have to ask f...

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Thanks a ton! I’ll look forward to the stable update and then will hopefully be able to start the transition.

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Anyone from OD able to chime in?

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Is there a way to put the subscriber ID in the mount? I have everything set up for us to transition to OD for xrays and it help our team a lot (we have to export a lot of xrays for medicaid and it's tedious with our current system). I just need to be able to place the patient's subscriber ID in the ...

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Well I tried for a few hours but it seems to be more complex than what we have right now. It technically works, but the fact that it is stuck in patient forms really kind of messes with everything. it seems to be more work then the way we have all notes set up right now. I think, putting it into exa...

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Thanks for the insight. I'll mess around with it and see if we can get it to work the way we'd like to using forms...

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Bumping this to the top again just to check in on it.

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Hi, https://api.xchart.com/v1/doc I have zero developer knowledge, but from what I'm reading on the webpage it looks like open dental could talk to Xchart (anesthesia management software) and create a new patient in Xchart and fill in some of their information. Am I reading the webpage correctly? Is...

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Just checking in on this again… Thanks!

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Hi, Is there a way to autofill sheets based on a previous answer? For example, we do an exam and have caries noted on tooth 14 occlusal (text based entry) from 6 months ago. Is there a way to autopopulate a new exam sheet with the same information in the same text field? The same kind of question go...

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Thanks Sean. Sounds like it's technically possible to make it all work. Looking forward to it!

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Any insight on this from the OD team?

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I see that they are read only right now. Is there a technical limitation that will never allow us to write back to OD or is that a feature that just hasn't quite made it yet? I've always had a great vision for what OD notes could be on a tablet using nested progress notes then dictation for any fina...

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I've looked around a bit (maybe 5 mins) but I can't seem to find a query for what I need. Can someone help? Collection (or net production) by appointment over a given date range with following categories - Hygiene codes vs treatment (would be nice to separate out by provider as well) - Would be nice...

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Thanks for the update!

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Any updates on this? Just curious.

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Hi, Will OD touch use the native iOS dictation ability to dictate notes? Would be amazing if it could. I'm not paying 3k a year for Nuance's professional dictation SAAS. I've tried their $500 stand alone version and it's ok but definitely not up to date. Plus it's a major resource hog. Windows is wh...

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Native sensor won't happen in OD any time soon. I just asked. Probably not worth the expense of paying developers to keep up with all the sensors without charging OD users an extra fee to use the imaging module which isn't really feasible.

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We are nowhere close to being done with Open Dental. We've barely scratched the surface of what's possible. I'm personally getting to the end of a months long effort to make it work better on very high dpi screens. It's so much nicer at 4k fantastic, I use a huge ultrawide monitor) . Some other thin...

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Probably not installed wit the multi TWAIN. I'll reconfigure and get back to you. Thanks!

Thanks for adding the Insurance ID field to upcoming features!

Dylan

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I'm curious if anyone like Jordan can comment on where OD is "going" in the next 3-5 years or so. It seems like running an OD hosted cloud based version and then building out APIs seem to be pretty high on the list when I look at release notes. I'm super happy they are doing that so that 3rd party p...

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Hi Jordan, Thanks for the quick reply. I did use the "get all" feature in GxTwain with the FMX mount in OD and it would only transfer a single image and then delete the rest of the images in the Twain interface. Any thoughts on what I might be doing wrong? Glad to hear that OD has support for multip...

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I would love for the ability for native image capture into images using Schick, Tuxedo, Kavo, etc without having to use a Twain interface. The twain interface (GxTwain) I used for my mission trip to Guatemala (I didn't have access to Apteryx) just dumped one picture at a time. When importing multipl...

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Hi, Is there a report to run that shows production by dentist, but includes hygiene production that is billed out under each dentist's name? Basically assign any production from a hygienist to the dentist for this particular report. I am a pediatric office and hygiene is a big component of productio...

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We use autonotes a ton. Love the nesting feature. That really allowed us to customize stuff. There are some things that we still type up though. Mostly at the end of the notes when discussing treatment options. I've looked at Nuance's software (Dragon Professional at $500). I think Windows has some ...

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Thanks

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I'm a pediatric dentist. I am trying to figure out a few things... 1. The total adjusted production per appointment with code D9240 (hospital call) attached to it over a specified time frame in the past. 2. The number of times we've completed D9240 in a specified date. The second one is easy. Just r...

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Yes. Conversion will probably be a pain (nothing is 100% smooth on stuff like that), but I'm 100% happy with my choice of OD now that I'm 2.5 years into my startup. I've spent a ton of time (hundreds of hours) customizing it. So you get what you put into it. eServices are coming on strong. Still not...

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Apteryx would suggest you start ponying up $1800+ a year for their cloud software...

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Is there a way to run a report to see income that is unallocated to a procedure? Long story short, we need it to be able to pay an associate accurately. The custom query OD wrote for us only works for allocated income. About 10% of the time it hasn't been put in and attached to payments. Some of tha...

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They are going SAAS exclusively. Really long thread on it here...

https://www.dentaltown.com/messageboard ... pteryx&v=0

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Hi Jordan,

Your team called and got it all fixed up a few weeks ago. Took them a few days to figure it out because it occurred with only certain monitors. Was very weird. They did a great job troubleshooting it!

Dylan

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Hi,

We just updated to 21.1.33 and the text in the chart "notes" box along with the notes themselves turns bold and sometimes completely blacked out when we type. Is that something that anyone else has experienced?

Thanks,
Dylan

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Figured it out. Just select them in the chart notes view to show up. We had turned them off a long time ago.

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Is there a way to print commlogs?

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1. Is there a way to auto set a recall interval based on insurance? Say insurance wants BW every 6 months vs 1 year. Pano every 3 vs 5. Fluoride 1 or 2x a year. 2. Is there also a way to quickly add a recall to the recall ASAP list? Currently we have to cancel, go into the account module, click the ...

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Is there a way to log into OD via RFID cards? We have them to unlock the back door of the office. Wondering if I could use them to have people "badge" into the program and then have OD log off more frequenty for HIPAA purposes.

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Thanks so much!

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Question... I'm bringing on an associate. I'm paying him a certain percentage of collections. Let's say 35%. He is getting paid on basically everything except the cleaning. He's getting any treatment he does, xrays that hygiene takes, fluoride, sealants, etc. The only thing I don't want to pay on is...

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Thanks so much for the information.

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Is there a way to trigger an email and/or text anytime someone breaks/cancels an appointment? I've set up a PDF hosted on my website. I'd like to send out an email that has the URL attached to it with a "nice" message informing parents of the cancellation policy we have.

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Both of those are phenominal. Thanks a ton!

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Is there a queary or report to break down new patients per month (or another timeframe) and label beside them what insurance they have? It could be per patient or a summary of x patients with Delta insurance, Y patients with medicaid, Z patients with bluecross blue shield. I've used queary 1245 I th...

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Thanks so much. I'll try this tomorrow.

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Hi everyone, We installed OD on a new computer over the weekend. On that computer, the tooth chart seems to be updating a little slowly. Looks a little like the chart is updating in a clockwise position anytime we do anything like add treatment, adjust a tooth position, etc. Other computers seems to...

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Ok thanks for the heads ups.

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Thanks for looking into it. After looking at your attached picture and comparing it to my screen, it looks like I don't have the checkbox option for "use raw HTML don't use master template" on the bottom of my email editor. All it has is Plain Text/HTML listed without a checkbox. Is that something I...

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Last thing I'll say tonight (hopefully it's helpful) is that when I "open" the HTML with Safari, it formats correctly.

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<div style="color:#4A...

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I've posted the entire HTML code below. I took out that first line and input it into the OD HTML email editor and it came back with some color blocks, a few lines of text, and lots of images/icons missing. I tried "importing" the images into OD to see if that would fix some of it. It didn't work. I'...

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I'm fairly tech savvy but 100% a complete novice with HTML. I tried using a WYSIWYG HTML editor from https://beefree.io/ Took one of their free templates, changed a few words (no images or anything). Downloaded the HTML and input it into OpenDental's HTML editor for email. Tried to click "OK" and se...

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Thanks. Very helpful

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Column Sizes Can someone help me adjust the column size for the progress notes? I made it fairly large when we first started because I had the real estate on my screen, but now I'd like to try and use the patient dashboard. I tried Setup-->Display Fields--> Procedure Group Note but that didn't do it...

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Ok thanks for letting me know. I've added it!

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Is there a way to change the vital signs input from kilograms to pounds? I was hoping to keep the height in inches though. I do most of my calculations in kilograms and while it's not hard to convert. It'd be nice to not have to do it multiple times per day.

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First time post. I've been thinking about an iPad app for open dental for a few months now. I have a lot of CS/EE/CE tech friends at the school that I went to. I would design the GUI, they would code. My question is this. Since my coding skills/knowledge of MySQL are essentially nil, how hard would ...

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