Continuous Learning By Dentist

As a non dentist I am surprised on how much efforts a dentist takes in keeping himself updated. This is commendable.  I have seen dentist in India working whole week and then attending conferences over the weekend. I have asked  the question to many dentist on what drives them to learn so much. There were many answers ranging from competition, to lot of  advancements being made in dentistry and hence the need to keep oneself updated.  There was one fascinating answer.  A dentist said that there is immense job satisfaction in doing good work in dentistry.Dentistry is like art and dentists always want to keep improving their skills like an artist. This is great.There is still one disconnect which I think is with dentists in India. They do not use available technologies like blogging, FB pages to educate their patients about new developments. I have always maintained that there is a demand for good quality information. If a dentist provided quality information for his patients via websites, blog and FB pages then it will tremendously help him to build his brand and help his practice. These tools are very easy to use and they will not take much of time.So if you are a dentists then you should try using internet to educate and reach out to your patients. This is very simple. All you need to do is to start.We at livehospital.net can help you on your information technology journey. Please reach us at vishal.singh@livehospital.net or rasmi.singh@livehospital.net


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Time Is Money For Dentist

How many times you as a dentist have given appointments and seen that people do not turn up ? Or how many times people have turned up late ?You know all this impacts your bottom line. Time in money for dentist.  If the appointments go haywire it affects the business directly.There is a simple solution to sort this problem out. Use  SMS Reminders.  This would mean that your patients are reminded of the exact time and day. Your staff does not  need to do additional work of reminding patients. You could think of rewarding punctual patients with discounts. All this would also make you also punctual. If you expect your patients to respect appointments then you would also need to be punctual. All this is good for your dental business.We at  LiveHospital have Dental Appointment Solutions for Indian dentist to optimize their time.

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What is better offline dental software or online dental software ?

A dental software can be online or offline. Which is better ? What should Indian dentist prefer ?Our take is that online software is the future. It allows the data to sit in the cloud from where it can be accessed from multiple devices. This is important, as a desktop software can crash and cause all the data to be lost.  Upgrade to a online software happens automatically, where as in desktop software it needs to be applied manually, which can be a time consuming process. In a online software you are always on the latest version and have access to all latest features of software.The world is moving online. You access email, bank details, social network online. There is no reason why dental software should not be online.There is a question of security which we will take in the coming blog posts.


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Doing cold call is an art.

Working in a start up means that you do tasks which you generally will not do. I have now come to appreciate the effort that goes in cold calling. It is a tough job calling people and making them listen to your point. So next time when you get a cold call remember all the effort that goes in making the call !


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How Doctors And Dentist Can Adopt IT ?

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How to stop cuts in Indian healthcare

The truth is out. It was always out but  http://www.satyamevjayate.in  had brought this out open in a big way.Can MCI make healthcare more ethical by bringing regulations.  The whole business model for healthcare today is based on having more people sick. This is how the industry will grow. Healthcare industry has no incentive to control cost.  Until this incentives are not changed regulations will not help.How do you bring incentives where industry really works to bring cost down.The solutions is by having compulsory medical insurance.  Once the premiums are collected  the state will not deliver the services. There will not be state run hospitals. We know these are plagued by corruption and inefficiencies. The country will be divided into zones and private parties will be invited to set up hospitals. Hospitals will be paid a flat price on per person basis.Now the hospitals will not  earn more money by having more sick people.  In fact in this system, they would want to have less sick people as their revenues are fixed based on the population.  All this still requires regulation to see that hospitals don't cut costs by compromising on procedures. But the game has been changed in this system. You don't want more sick people. You don't want more tests. Hospitals will wan people to be more healthy and they will focus on preventive measures.The model is discussed in detail at  http://sabhlokcity.com/2011/07/exploring-the-zonal-health-care-model-further/ Every one wants others to be honest. I have always argued that honesty is a function of system. A right system can make a industry more ethical. With wrong systems it is impossible to expect ethics.


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satyamevjayate on cost of drugs in India

It was great to see a program on healthcare in  http://satyamevjayate.in/ . I could not see the whole program but saw parts on which I have some observations Cost of drugs - It was good to see that the question of ethics was brought in Indian healthcare industry. It is know fact that doctors prescribe costly drugs when cheap drugs can be given.People were astonished to hear that cost of drugs with the same medicinal value vary as much as by 1000%.  The issue is with the solution prescribed - to have state open generic shops. Nothing can be more disastrous than this. We have seem umpteen times how all this money disappears in corruption. But does that mean that  people should not get cheap drugs.  Yes, indeed they should get and there is a much simpler solution which will actually work Have doctors write generic name of drugs in prescription by lawThis simple act will help to solve the problem. A doctor may complain that he trusts a particular brand. Let him write his preferred brand along with the generic name and leave it to  the individual to decide whether he wants to take a generic or a branded drug.  There could be independent rating agencies which rate the drugs on effectiveness and let that information be available on internet. This will create a genuine competition among pharma companies to lower cost.I hope people will see that state opening pharma counters will not solve the problem. If you don't believe me then this link Jan Aushadi show what is happening. 


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