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Don’t Co-operate with eDR Vendors, Doc!
My Opinion of eDRs and eDR Vendors By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS Don’t cooperate with those you don’t trust, Doc. eDR Stakeholders If you allow Dentrix, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the ADA and other...
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Challenging the NPI Requirement of Blue Cross Blue Shield of Texas Again
How Far Can They be Pushed? By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS Command-and-control organizations like BCBSTX find Facebook difficult to control. Even a small nidus of a complaint posted by a client named Mark...
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On the Protecting Access to Healthcare (PATH) Act
ADA Makes Progress Against McCarran-Ferguson By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS The ADA makes real progress against McCarran-Ferguson. I’ve watched the American Dental Association fight long and hard against the...
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Transparency Emerges in Dentistry
Cavities Blamed on Patients By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS If your car repeatedly requires costly repairs because you never change the oil, would you blame your mechanic? PBS Frontline Dentists are...
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On the Future of Dentistry?
Not good for the profession … as we know it! By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS If you have not yet noticed, the future doesn’t look good for the dental profession as we know it. Like far too many neighborhood...
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On the Notice of Privacy Practices
Encryption and HHS are Taking Hits By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS It is bad politics for the President’s Department of Health and Human Services to get caught deceiving voters. Word gets around much faster...
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The PP-ACA from Medicine to Dentistry
Obamacare and Dentistry [By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS] It seems that problems with the PP-ACA have migrated from traditional medicine to the world of dentistry. “MaineCare dentists hit with massive fines...
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Are Dentists Satisfied with their EDRs?
Major Discontent With EHR Adoption By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS Unlike physicians, dentists never complain. That means they are probably 100% satisfied with their electronic dental records. What do you...
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Is there a Migration of Patients to Paper-Based Dentists?
Paper Medical Records Become Popular Again? [By Kellus Pruitt DDS] Starting long ago, I warned that as more dental patients are notified of data breaches – some more than once – we are likely to...
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LinkedIn Ads Will Now Follow You Around The Web
OVER HEARD IN THE DOCTOR’S LOUNGE [LinkedIn Ads Will Now Follow You Around The Web – Here’s How to Opt-Out] [By D. K. Pruitt DDS] Because we can’t go anywhere online without some social network...
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PHI RansomWare Just Went Up!
[By Darrell K. Pruitt DDS] Expect malware entrepreneurs to charge what the market will bear, again and again. “OCR Releases Guidance on Ransomware: ‘Your Money or Your PHI’”. By Dianne J. Bourque for...
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Are Paper MRs Safer than EMRs?
Paper is Safer! [By Darrell K. Puitt DDS] “Ransomware Attacks Can’t Hide from HIPAA Anymore – Hospital and health system executives are on notice: Come clean about ransomware attacks as early as...
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Dental Managed Care is Substandard Care
Dental Managed Care [DMC] is Substandard Care – count on it! By D. Kellus Pruitt DDS Have you noticed most employer-sponsored dental plans boast savings of 30% and more on dental care, without...
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Why patients will soon prefer paper dental records?
Read for yourself why dental patients will soon prefer paper-based over paperless [By Kellus Pruitt DDS] Recently, Marianne Kolbasuk McGee (HealthInfoSec) posted, “Analysis: Are HHS Cybersecurity...
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HITECH: A politically-correct Scam?
Update on HITECH By Kellus Pruitt DDS “How bad science can lead to bad science journalism — and bad policy – This is what happens when news organizations don’t catch lousy studies.” By Stephen Soumerai...
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Did ADA Leaders Mislead Congress about EDR Security?
Electronic Dental Records [EDR] Security? By Darrell K. Pruitt DDS “Terrifying Truth: Ransomware is Everywhere – At its basest level, ransomware is a form of kidnapping. Hackers effectively ‘kidnap’ a...
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Dental EHRs are a Scam?
Electronic dental records are a scam. They have always been a scam. By Darrell Pruitt DDS “Microsoft & Google unable to detect new zero-day ransomware.” By Anthony Spadafora for ITProPortal,...
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On Private Equity-Owned Dental Practices
The boom and bust of private equity-owned dental practices in the U.K …. Lessons to be learned? By Kellus Pruitt DDS “Why the dental business became more and more like pulling teeth,” by Harry Wilson,...
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ANOSMIA, HYPERSOMIA, AGEUSIA, HYPOGEUSIA, DYSGEUSIA and the CORONA VIRUS?
WHAT IS “ANOSMIA” By Darrell Pruitt DDS and David E. Marcinko MBBS, MBA Anosmia, also known as smell blindness, is the loss of the ability to detect one or more smells. Anosmia may be temporary or...
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DIGITAL SECURITY and the American Dental Association [ADA]
By Darrell K. Pruitt DDS Digital security and the ADA I wrote the following letter four years ago today. Neither The Digital Dental Record nor its sponsor, The American Dental Association, responded....
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