After attending quite a few meetings of State Dental Boards, State Dental Associations and some National Dental Associations, I am dumbfounded by the unmitigated fury and vitriol coming from so-called practitioners of the healing arts with regard to teledentistry. Almost reflexively naysayers use terms like unethical, substandard, poor quality, and dangerous to describe aspects of teledentistry. No matter how many epithets are hurled like javelins at the proponents of teledentistry, those who…
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An Overwhelmingly Orwellian Response to Teledentistry
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Consulting with UNC-Chapel Hill Business School Students
One of the central missions of the ATDA is to educate the public about Teledentistry. There is no better way to do this than to engage undergraduate business students. I was contacted by the Faculty and Students from the course BUSINESS 554: Consulting Skills and Frameworks at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill to serve as a Teledentistry expert for their consulting project. A Faculty member from the UNC Adams…
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Center for Connected Telehealth Policy: Patient Satisfaction Research Catalogue
The CCHP has reviewed the literature regarding patient satisfaction and Telehealth. https://www.cchpca.org/sites/default/files/2018-09/Telehealth%20and%20Patient%20Satisfaction%20Research%20Catalogue%20%28Aug%202018%29.pdf