Title : Zero information loss: Cloud computing and dentistry’s next information revolution
Abstract:
Dentistry is no longer just the “tooth business”. In 2024, Dentistry is the INFORMATION BUSINESS. As practice owners, we control vast amounts of data about our patients, their health and their finances. Not only progress notes, treatment plans, medical histories and prescriptions, but also radiographs, CT studies, photographs and more. Information pours over us constantly, like a waterfall. Can we really capture it all, use it wisely, and protect it? Information Loss is a serious threat to the success of your practice because our patients’ data is precious, and valuable. Computerization relieved us of some of the previous generation’s information burdens, but now our increasingly vulnerable servers and networks face serious threats themselves. Protecting them can seem like a full time job. Ransomware attacks and natural disasters have cost some practices hundreds of thousands, even millions of dollars. Others have never recovered. More and more dentists are turning to Cloud Computing options to alleviate this burden. Rather than keeping information on servers in our closets or under our desks, cloud computing makes it possible to shield it in a remote database accessed through the internet, managed and protected for us. As long as we have an internet connection, we can access our data and the software needed to use it. This fun, informative lecture will give you the tools you need to decide if the cloud might be an option for your practice or your organization.
Audience Take Away:
- Understand the decisions that practice owners and organization leaders need to manage and protect information
- Apply the principles of Zero Information Loss to your own practice.
- Identify the kinds of information you should (and shouldn’t) be collecting and using from your patients
- Dispel some of the myths and misconceptions about cloud computing and software as a service
