With severe weather season upon us, the Internal Revenue Service is offering advice to help everyone minimize storm and natural disaster impact. Businesses are encouraged to follow these tips in preparing for such events: Use electronic records. Businesses may have access to bank and other financial statements online. If so, your statements are already securely stored there.… Continue Reading IRS natural disaster preparation tips
Documentation in patient health records and other clinical systems fulfills many purposes. It records and memorializes patient care, facilitates communication among caregivers, forms the basis for coding and billing, provides data pertinent to quality improvement and may provide information that is critical to the defense of a legal action. Physicians, dentists and other health care… Continue Reading Checklist: Documentation essentials
Few things are more frustrating to me as a WDA officer, and especially as your editor, than hearing a member say “When did that happen?” or “I didn’t know anything about that!”. The WDA communications team makes a tremendous effort to keep our members updated on association activities and advocacy efforts often and in a… Continue Reading Smells phishy to me…
According to a study from Symantec, ransomware attacks have escalated by 500 percent in recent years. Ransomware is software that a hacker uses to infiltrate your network, lock your practice data and demand a ransom from you in order to unlock it. According to FBI.gov, having your data backed up offsite is a key tip… Continue Reading FBI tip to protect your dental practice data
With the cost of the EpiPen in the news over the past several months. I was hoping the cost would go down or a less expensive alternative would surface. I eventually began looking into options myself and suspect others have found what I did, but if not, I want to be sure that I get… Continue Reading Lower cost alternative to EpiPen
Wisconsin is not alone. Like many states, Wisconsin has an ample supply of dentists but those providers are not necessarily distributed to all corners of the state. The Wisconsin Dental Association believes all residents who have the need and want to obtain care should have access to a dentist. Unfortunately, some of our most vulnerable… Continue Reading “Houston, we have an access problem!”
By Cindy Hoogasian Director, Association Gloves & Supplies Due to significant cost increases for natural rubber latex and nitrile butadine rubber since last September, the price of examination gloves may increase in the coming months. One manufacturer, Microflex, already has announced wholesale price increases for latex dental exam gloves as of May 1, and has… Continue Reading Exam glove prices increasing soon
Wisconsin dental regulations require a dentist to keep patient records for 10 years from the date of the patient’s last office visit. The dentist must maintain the patient’s complete dental record, which may include treatment notes, evaluations, diagnoses, prognoses, X-rays, photographs, diagnostic models, laboratory reports, laboratory prescriptions, drug prescriptions, insurance claim forms, billing records and… Continue Reading Records retention requirements for Wisconsin dentists
The Central Wisconsin Dental Society and Wisconsin Dental Association are co-hosting a new continuing education and professional networking event scheduled for Nov. 2, 2017 at the Holiday Inn and Convention Center in Stevens Point, Wis. Dr. Gordon Christensen will present “New Aspects of Dentistry – 2017” for 5.5 clinical CE credits. The CE program will… Continue Reading Three CWDS dentists: All welcome to Christensen CE/Big Easy event!
Dr. Gene Shoemaker (Waukesha) didn’t realize counterfeit software was a huge issue until two Homeland Security agents showed up at his dental office. Luckily, he and his partner Dr. Kate Gilson (Waukesha) weren’t in trouble, but HS was investigating four instances of purchasing counterfeit software on systems registered to the Shoemaker & Gilson Family Dentistry… Continue Reading Getting Homeland Security’s attention