Accurate patient records therefore is a very important resource in a dental clinic as in any health care facility and computerized or electronic based records further enhances the maximization of this resource.
The benefits of using a computerized patient records are : Improved access A patient record facilitates the tracking of a patient's treatment and activity over time. Improved access including easy retrieval and recording through the use of technology have been considered a significant advancement in managing health care.
It has contributed greatly in the delivery of timely and efficient health care especially when it involves large volumes of data involving a large number of patients. It also prevents the waste of precious time which usually occurs when searching for patients record. Outcomes management and decision support Electronic patient records provides a more reliable and refined basis for outcomes management since various patient data can be easily combined in making clinical decisions.
It can include various data formats aside from text including imaging as part of the patients chart and dental history. The resultant database can also be used for epidemiological studies in terms of improving health care both at the clinical and the public health level.
Different levels of access and data security are provided by available technologies including access control level and data encryption. Main Issues in the adoption of Information Technology There are two main recurring issues as regards the adoption of information technology: Affordability With the current decreasing budgets of health care organizations rising inflation and costs of dental practice, adoption of new technologies can be relatively expensive.
This does not include also technical support costs that runs several thousands of pesos depending on the support being availed. Ease of use is also one of the issues being raised by skeptics arguing that adopting a new system would likely disrupt their current work flow.
Experience have shown that adoption of information technology have resulted in better reliability and accuracy of patient's data due to features and user interface design that ensures lesser errors in entering and reading data.
Free and Open Source Software: Providing reliable, affordable and accessible dental Information Systems Free and open source software FOSS offers an alternative that is both affordable, accessible and reliable. It removes the cost barriers in adopting information technology. This includes the use of electronic records in patient management by providing technology for a lower total cost of acquisition. Present computer hardware and networking cost have gone down considerably and its only the cost of commercial or proprietary software that has remained expensive.
FOSS tries to solve this high cost of software by providing an alternative to commercial software. To understand the concept, you should think of free as in free speech, not as in free beer. Free software is a matter of the users' freedom to run, copy, distribute, study, change and improve the software.
Access to the source code is a precondition for this. Free and open source software not only provides software at a lesser or no monetary cost at all. It also provides users and people who supports these users the freedom to view and test in detail the source code and revise the software to conform to the needs of its users. These business model has greatly reduced acquisition cost, making software more affordable.
Mature open-source code is as stable as software can ever be. The reliability of FOSS coupled with speed of development and improvement, stability, portability and scalability can be gleaned from the fact that FOSS developers are usually users of the software, that source code is publicly available and that developers are members of a community of developers.
Could not load tags. Latest commit. Git stats commits. Failed to load latest commit information. View code. It's a complete open source solution to manage you clinic.
Download Latest Release Features: Doctors records, manage more than one dentist Patient records Full patient medical records Patients attachments and notes management Billing management, with invoices and estimates Treatments lists Scheduling agenda Customizable reports PDF output templates Cloud backup scripts Calendar web interface Client-server architecture, access by multiple computer at the same time Multilanguage Send appointments reminder Password form protection Windows service for additional features Requirements Microsoft Windows with.
This is the homepage of the OpenMolar Project. Neil found himself disastisfied with both the software and service provided by a well-established UK supplier of such a system. The project is divided into two distinct branches.
OpenMolar1 is the original project, written in python version3 , and qt5, using a mysql backend.
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