title: Modern office design in the "information age".
abstract: This article reviews the process of reaching the goal of modernizing a new or existing endodontic office. Incorporating computer-based technologies in the office requires significant planning, best achieved by forming a technology goal that addresses budget, knowledge base, and infrastructure issues. Making the transition to the modern dental practice is expensive and time-consuming but also profitable and exciting. Soon, all dental offices will be using digital radiographic systems, video systems, and patient charting programs that use no paper documentation. As the computer familiarity and staff knowledge based increases with the growing use of computers in society overall, finding the office personnel able to harness the efficiency and power of the technology in the dental office will be easier. Through careful planning and formation of a reasonable technology goal, updating an old office or creating a new modern endodontic practice with the technologies and their patients can benefit.
authors.affiliation: Department of Endodontics, University of Pennsylvania School of Dental Medicine, 240 South 40th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104-6030, USA. guessendo@mac.com
authors.forename: Garrett
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Guess
mesh_terms: D003199:Computer Systems; D003770:Dental Offices / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003792:Dental Records; D004708:Endodontics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D007256:Information Systems; D007374:Interior Design and Furnishings; D008492:Medical Informatics Computing; D016347:Medical Records Systems, Computerized; D019252:Radiography, Dental, Digital; D012984:Software; D013674:Technology, Dental; D014741:Video Recording