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How your ADSTRA Dental Software Helps Increase Revenue

As a dentist, you strive to provide the highest quality of care to your patients. By doing so, you increase their trust and loyalty in you and your practice; helping your practice thrive in the long run. While providing such a high level of care to your patients, you also want to maximize the revenue coming into your dental practice.

Ways Your ADSTRA Dental Software Can Make You Money

ADSTRA Dental Software can help further increase your practices efficiency and overall revenue by giving you valuable information:


Turn cancellations into new appointments

As we know, cancellations are inevitable, unpredictable and unpreventable. However – by developing a short-call list, you can make them work in your favour. Developing a short-call list allows you to contact the patients that match the type of treatment required or block of time needed in priority order to fill the cancellation spots on your schedule as quickly as possible.

More appointments means increased revenue for your dental practice, – the ultimate goal.

Make it easy for patients to confirm appointments

With ADSTRA Confirmations, you can save your front desk staff’s time and energy from having to manually confirm your patient’s dental appointments. By sending automatic individual or group SMS and/or Email appointment confirmations and reminders to your patients, you’ll be able to get in instant contact with them and hopefully fill the gaps in your schedule.

Additionally, when your patients confirm their appointments via SMS, the schedule will be automatically updated. This eliminates the need for your staff to manually update the schedule, as well as call patients multiple times for appointment confirmations, giving them more time to provide exceptional service to your patients.

Drive growth by making changes based on current performance

With over 130 different reports and charts that can be generated in ADSTRA Management, on all aspects of your practice and viewed at a glance, you can not only grow your dental practice, but also improve the financial efficiency of your practice. By pulling these different reports you will be able to see which procedures generate the most profit, and thus focus your energy on acquiring patients that require these procedures.

There is always room for improvement in one’s business workflow. You can generate reports that can help you identify which areas of your dental practice need improvement, for example – pull a report in which you compare production by providers . See the profit coming from each provider, and use that information to implement best practices throughout the whole dental office.

You’ve invested time, energy, and resources in your dental software – now let it help grow your practice, and maximize the revenue coming in to your dental practice.

Contact ADSTRA to learn more.

ADSTRA Cloud Paperless Dental Software Solution

For over 20 years, ADSTRA Dental Software has been a leading provider of paperless dental software. During this time, ADSTRA was selected by Lockheed Martin Canada to supply the paperless dental software component for the Canadian Department of National Defence’s state-of-the-art health care system.

To satisfy their users’ needs to access the same database from multiple locations, ADSTRA developed their cloud solution in 2015 which combined their three successful modules: ADSTRA Management, Clinical and Imaging, creating ADSTRA Cloud.

Choosing to partner with Microsoft Azure, the industry leader in cloud solutions ensured that ADSTRA Cloud would provide the highest standard for a safe and secure cloud-based paperless dental software solution.

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ADSTRA’s one-stop solution also has the advantage of scalability offering an ideal paperless dental software set-up for small and large offices alike, and useful to either single or multi-location practices.

The three main components work seamlessly to encompass all computer needs based on the area of responsibility for each staff member.

ADSTRA Management provides the ability to run the administrative aspect of your dental practice smoothly and without the need for paper documents. Appointments, Financial Records, Patient Communication, Insurance Claims and even SMS Reminders are just a click away.

ADSTRA Imaging is flexible and scalable – capable of working with a variety of dental imaging devices providing a solution that is sure to meet your imaging needs. The various dental treatment infographics that are included in ADSTRA Imaging can be effectively used to improve patient knowledge and understanding of treatments, and increase case acceptances. Moreover, reports for referring dentists can be created with just a few clicks, increasing your overall efficiency and effectiveness.

ADSTRA Clinical allows charting patients’ examinations, odontograms and perio exams and recording dental treatments and treatment plans. Templates can be easily used within ADSTRA Clinical, minimizing the need for manual input. In addition, new exams start with the patients’ previous chart, simplifying the process with only new conditions needing to be charted. Furthermore, ADSTRA Clinical works seamlessly with ADSTRA Management and ADSTRA Imaging: users can view images from ADSTRA Imaging side-by-side with patient’s appointments from ADSTRA Management.

ADSTRA Dental Software provides the optimal cloud-based paperless dental software solution for your dental practice software needs by combining the capabilities of the three main ADSTRA Dental Software modules with the safety and security of Microsoft managed servers hosted on the Microsoft Azure platform.

Implement the ADSTRA cloud-based paperless solution in your dental practice, and experience all the benefits it has to offer.

Benefits To A Cloud-Based Dental Software Solution

ADSTRA dental software is now available as a cloud-based dental software solution (ADSTRA Cloud) for your dental practice. This cloud solution is a safe and modern solution to your dental clinic’s needs.

ADSTRA Cloud is an all-in-one cloud-based dental software solution that offers an integrated solution for a paperless dental practice.

In a day and age where everything you could imagine is available via the cloud – people are often left wondering what the benefits are to buying their software, apps, music, movies, and more, in this way.

Dental software, and really – all software companies, are striving to develop cloud computing solutions that offer the consumer countless benefits. But what exactly are the benefits to a cloud-based dental software solution?

With ADSTRA Cloud:

·         You do not need to invest in or manage servers ·         You have access to your software from anywhere
·         Your security needs are met ·         Your data is safe and secure
·         Your backups are done automatically ·         You get access to the latest version of the ADSTRA software

STORING YOUR DATA ON THE CLOUD ENSURES PROTECTION FROM LOSING DATA

Owning a physical copy of something is a way of the past. What would happen if you were to lose all of your music CDs? You’d have to go and replace them, right? That’s a hassle.

Let’s say instead of having physical CD’s – you just purchased and downloaded your music. Now, no matter what – you will always have access to your music.

You can’t lose something if it’s on the cloud.

The same situation can be applied to your data. What would happen if your dental clinic had a flood or a fire? All of those paper charts and your computers themselves would be destroyed. Do you have a procedure in place to recover all of your patient’s data?

If your patient’s data was stored on the cloud – all you would need to do is login from any computer to access it again.

ADSTRA‘s cloud-based dental software, ADSTRA Cloud, is hosted on safe and secure remote Microsoft managed servers. This allows you to have the ability to access your data from anywhere, on any Windows computer or tablet.

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MICROSOFT AZURE – THE MOST SECURE PLATFORM IN THE WORLD KEEPS YOUR DATA SAFE

Microsoft Azure is used by many companies, large and small, as the host of their cloud solutions. ADSTRA hosts a private cloud on Microsoft Azure.

Using advanced encryption methods and meeting the highest safety standards, Microsoft Azure is recognized as the most secure platform in the world and has methods in place for protecting you against the loss or theft of your data.

Working in the healthcare industry – dental providers have access to a lot of confidential information about all of their patients. It goes without saying that they have a duty to protect this information and ensure it is all securely stored.

In recent years, many dental practices have been affected by Trojan viruses, like the Cryptovirus, and their data was held hostage until a hefty ransom was paid.

With a cloud-based dental software solution like ADSTRA Cloud, situations like this could have been avoided. Since all of the patient data is not hosted locally on each computer, but instead on a safe and secure remote Microsoft managed server, Trojan viruses on the computer would not put the confidential patient data at risk.

ADSTRA CLOUD IS A COST-EFFECTIVE SAAS DENTAL SOFTWARE OPTION

ADSTRA Cloud is hosted on the most powerful cloud service platform in the world and offers a cost-effective solution for your dental practice. With no need to budget for servers or networking – your capital expenditure funds can be allocated for major equipment purchases.

The all-inclusive, no contract ADSTRA Cloud Monthly Subscription includes:

  • paperless dental software solution including appointments, patients’ records, imaging, clinical records, and patient forms
  • all of the software upgrades issued during the coverage period
  • unlimited on-going support by phone and remote-interactive support via the internet
  • training and/or access to training materials, as applicable
  • storage on Microsoft Azure Datacenters with automatic backups
  • 24/7 professionally managed IT hardware infrastructure

The ADSTRA cloud-based dental software, ADSTRA Cloud – is an affordable solution for dental clinics of any size.

Partnered with the security of Microsoft Azure, ADSTRA Cloud is the ideal dental software solution for your dental practice.

CONTACT us today to learn how ADSTRA Cloud can help your modern dental practice become more efficient.

ADSTRA iForms – An Easy-To-Use Digital Document Software Solution

Freeing your front-desk staffs time from tedious tasks, such as inputting patient information from paper forms, is just one of the many benefits of creating a paperless dental practice.

An often-overlooked hurdle to going paperless is the multitude of different forms that a dental practice needs, not only to provide a great service to its patients – but to comply with all applicable professional regulations and to protect itself from any legal action.

ADSTRA dental software includes ADSTRA iForms, an easy-to-use digital document software solution with the capability to:

  • Create digital forms that can be filled out on tablets
  • Modify and verify digital forms
  • Organize the digital forms by group/type
  • Store the digital forms within each patients file
How Does ADSTRA iForms Work?

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Step One: Form Creation

Create custom forms tailored to your dental practice’s needs in the Forms Template builder within ADSTRA iForms. The Forms Template builder uses a building block approach that enables a dental practice to create any type of form required.

The builder allows the dental practice to include different types of content onto a form such as: plain text, a question that will capture a written response, a Yes or No question with an option to also capture a text response, a multiple-choice question, the ability capture phone numbers and/or dates, and finally a place to capture signatures.

Step Two: Form Management

Organization of the forms you’ve created is essential in developing a seamless workflow. The Forms Manager within ADSTRA iForms is used to assign single or a group of forms created in the Forms Template builder to patients to be filled out. A mobile device can then be given to the patients, on which they will open and fill-out their required forms*.

Once the patient has completed their part by filling out all of the necessary information on the forms, the dental practice will review the submitted forms.

The Forms Manager allows the reviewer to:

  • Accept and save the form as a document in the patient’s file
  • Keep the form active if a provider is required to fill-out additional information (after which they will save it to the patient’s file)
  • Directly make edits and then save to the patient’s file
  • Give the form back to the patient to make any additional changes after speaking with the patient – then review and save to the patient’s file

When the forms contain critical medical information, and this information could be relevant to the dental treatment record, just keeping a document copy in the patient file isn’t enough. That is why when using ADSTRA iForms, it is also possible for a form to automatically be saved in the patient’s Clinical Notes. This gives the provider an easier access to vital patient information when treating a patient.

ADSTRA iForms is just one more reason why dental practices who wish to go paperless should look at the ADSTRA dental software solution to help them accomplish this (sometimes thought of daunting) task.

* For forms that require entering a lot of text, we recommend a device that has a keyboard attachment.