Patient Billing System Analysis

July 20th 2015

Analysis of Patient Record System, Patient Scheduling System, Billing System and Review of suitable Software Solutions

Aisling Meade, IT Consultant.

Student No: 2149685

1. Software Recommendations

Dental software is easy to use and easy to set up software. It totally meets the needs of a modern dental clinic and requirements as set by the Irish Dental Association. It contains all a patient’s records that are needed for good dentistry care. All patient information is well laid out on one screen and all relevant information can be found in a few seconds. Technically it can store and display multimedia content such as X-rays and photos. It has planners with appointments which can be set at a certain date or

ACE Dental is a complete software solution for dental practices which is efficient and cost effective. ACE enables users to work with information about the current dental state of their patients, a complete dental history, helps keep records of treatments, any materials used, billing for services delivered, giving work hours to medical staff, patient check-ups and so on.

• Patient Records System

Electronic dental records on ACE are set up so that they are not too different to traditional paper records. This aims to help give dental staff an easier transition from current practices to the use of electronic records, with minimal training needed. The software for patient records has two main parts; the first part contains personal information of the patient. The second part contains a patient’s medical record.

I believe that the advantages of using electronic dental records as opposed to using the printed one, especially for larger dental clinics, are huge, some of these include;

• Better control over records

• Easier storage/ information access

• Being able to store higher volumes of

At the beginning, I found it quite difficult as I didn’t know anything about the different billing and patient scheduling software that was available. After doing some research I was happier with my knowledge of the topic and felt I was ready to begin with the assignment. It took me about a week all together to complete my assignment as I did it in small segments each day. I found doing this easier as the workload felt less.

I tried my best to keep my layout to a professional business report. I tried to not make it too impersonal as the brief indicated we knew and had already met the person we were writing the report to. I found doing a report style layout slightly more difficult than doing a regular essay style but found it good practice as reports are so important in business.

By the end of the assignment, I felt as though I had learned quite a lot. I researched many different software solutions that are available in the dental industry and even tried some of them out by doing online tutorials. I think this helped me understand a bit more about information systems as a subject as I saw the importance of them to businesses in the real world.