Less than a year ago, a cloud was something that was either a harbinger of a Georgia Okeefe retrospective or a potentially ruined golf game, which frankly, already ruins a good walk in the woods and pollutes the aquifiers with the chemicals used to keep fairways and greens green (it’s green they say on the [...]

Pill Bottle Caps Use Wireless Communication To Remind Patients When To Take Medication GlowCapsTM is a bottle with built-in wireless communication When you receive your GlowCapTM, you program it with your schedule. It will then remind you when its time to take Multaq by lighting up, playing a melody, or calling your home phone. If [...]

It’s not encryption per se that is agitating me, it’s the implementation of the mandate and the cost considerations, particularly if iTrans doesn’t meet the standard, which would require a simple comment to clarify. What I can find is from the US OF COURSE, nothing in Canada or Ontario to be found………….The second article is [...]

Have tried the honey technique to get folks to chatter about impending encryption issues in Ontario for inter-collegial communication, but to no avail, to no email as well.  Take a gander at the iTrans promo piece from the JayZCDA (bolded up and italicized – you know why)……….then ask yourself why it’s being recommended for communication [...]

Posted this a while back…. http://blogohj.oralhealthjournal.com/2011/12/dentists-turn-to-marketing-after-getting-brush-off-from-patients.html Mississauga Dentist Increases Oral Cancer Awareness Dr. Brian Kaplansky, dentist in Mississauga, offers early oral cancer detection with new technology. http://www.healthcareglobal.com/press_releases/mississauga-dentist-increases-oral-cancer-awareness Less than 30 years ago, the RCDSO would come after you in Ontario for marketing…..in the words of the John Mayer – we keep waiting for the world [...]

From Dental Tribune November 24, 2011 BOSTON, Mass.,USA: The Forsyth Institute in Boston has signed an exclusive licencing agreement with a U.S.-based start-up for the commercialisation of a recently patented blue-light based technology for use in dentistry. Under the terms of the contract,Lexington-based PhotOral will be allowed to support the development and marketing of an [...]

The University of Pittsburgh offers a Dental Informatics program…. Pittsburgh, pA:  November 15, 2011- The University of Pittsburgh is seeking applicants for MS,PhD, and postdoctoral positions for its training program in dental informatics. These programs provide training in a cutting-edge discipline which is focused on the application of computer and information science to improve dental practice, research, education, and management.  A full [...]

From Dr. Bicuspid – KathyKincaide, Editor in Chief November 1, 2011 — “Brightsquid” may not sound like the name of an imaging company, but this young Canadian technology firm is bringing its Web-based image and data sharing service to dentistry to facilitate online communication among dentists, dental labs, and patients by centralizing information relevant to [...]

It’s unending….. MELVILLE, N.Y., Sep 07, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) –Air Techniques, a manufacturing leader in dental equipment and digital imaging products for the dental industry has developed an app for iPhones and iPads. The app is available to everyone and was designed especially for Air Techniques’ customers and dealers. “We are extremely happy with the [...]

Before the end of this decade, stem cell research will enable regeneration of tooth structure/teeth. While in the context of our field the implications are extraordinary, consider what our confreres in other health disciplines are doing….it’s mind boggling.  STORY HIGHLIGHTS Modern prosthetic devices offer hope of a more active life for amputees Thought-controlled prosthetic arm [...]

I had the opportunity to wander through the MaRS complex the other day because of http://www.marsdd.com/events/details/free-geek-toronto-used-computers-and-electronics-pickup. If you don’t know much about MaRS, then wander through http://www.marsdd.com/ and make it a point to revisit….brilliant concept, but MEDICAL YOU KNOW………I have young granchildren who each own an iPAD2, and a MacBook Air…….when my 4 year old has to remember something, [...]

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From Dental Economics by Martin Jablow Dental technology continues to move forward. Slow speed belt driven handpieces have given way to precision electric handpieces. Impressions can now be taken with a camera. We are replacing a scalpel with a laser. The time is here to considering moving from the traditional dental practice management client/server arrangement [...]

From Market Watch – the Wall Street Journal – August 1, 2011 Schools that meet established criteria to receive Lava Chairside Oral Scanner C.O.S. Systems ST. PAUL, Minn., Aug 01, 2011 (BUSINESS WIRE) — By the end of 2011, dental programs from selected schools across the nation will be able to offer hands-on training with some [...]

Green, green, they say, on the far side of the hill From John Flucke’s technology blog Even dentists hate toothpaste tubes.  They aren’t very efficient which means they are wasteful.  They are also messy and sometimes hard to control. However, I think Designers Sang Min Yu and Wong Sang Lee are onto something here with their [...]

From Dr. Bicuspid – Kathy Kincaide Standardization is the key to just about everything in technology from cables to open source code….in the dental world, like CONNECTIVITY – it’s the only way to make TRUE INTEGRATION OF TECHNOLOGY pervasive. July 22, 2011 – A Canadian software developer and intraoral scanner manufacturer is working with some of [...]