November 11, 2011 News Electronic Health RecordsEncryption

Push For Electronic Medical Records Must Slow Down, For Security’s Sake

by ken

I am not decrying the need to encrypt, simply concerned that the cart is typically being put way before the horse and the horse will get a hernia trying to push, not pull. “I look forward to medical records going electronic,”…

October 22, 2011 News Cloud computingConnectivityElearningElectronic Health RecordsGovernment regulations

New Gmail Design – read carefully, the word spot is not in the title

by ken

There is simply no longer an excuse for any dental practice in Canada not to be online and connected to receive email. You may not feel the need to be involved with Google + and the social networking aspect, but…

August 27, 2011 News Stem cell research

#1000 – from the Eretz

by ken

Imagine no possessions I wonder if you can No need for greed or hunger A brotherhood of man Imagine all the people Sharing all the world  Tel Aviv University‘s Goldschleger School of Dental Medicine isolated oral mucosa cells and manipulated them into stem cells.  These…

August 7, 2011 News Computer softwareWebsites

Your browser reimagined..

by ken

I feel the need, for speed!!!! www.rockmelt.com – the future of linkage just got PHHHASSSSTTTTERRRRRR

March 6, 2011 News Decay assessment and preventionPediatric dentistry

Teledentistry – whodda thunk it eh?

by ken

FROM TOPIX Check out the video clip I remember receiving a phone call about “bottle mouth syndrome” when my daughter was in medical school at Queens and she was sent up to Sioux Lookout and environs to do a component…

December 16, 2010 News Trends in Dental Education

Bend me, shape me, anyway you want me…….long as you pass me….

by ken

In response to a high prevalence of neck and back pain among working dentists and dental hygienists, the dean of the University of Maryland Dental School Christian S. Stohler, DMD, DrMedDent, has launched an initiative to bring renewed attention to…

June 25, 2010 News Women in dentistry

Is there a need? Indeed!!!

by catherine

The Second Women’s Weekend Dental Conference was, by all accounts, and yes, I was there to experience it first-hand, a roaring success. Held in June at the White Oaks Conference Resort & Spa in Niagara-on-the-Lake, ON, attendees were wined, dined…