Health systems have rapidly increased the number of telehealth, AI and revenue cycle programs in recent months, as found in a report by the Nokia-UPMC-backed Center for Connected Medicine and KLAS Research. Around 20% of organizations surveyed said they would continue offering virtual visits, and another 17% said they would…

The world’s older population continues to grow at an unprecedented rate. Today, 8.5 percent of people worldwide (617 million) are aged 65 and over. With the joys of aging come the development chronic conditions that need to be monitored, including oral health. It doesn’t take in-depth research to realize that dental…

Technology seems to be able to improve every aspect of medicinal care, increase the quality of life of patients and improve their chances of survival in severe cases. It can help doctors perform surgeries better and medicinal dosages can be calculated more accurately, but what can technology do to improve…

About Speaker Dr. Onur Nacakgedigi is an assistant clinical professor of public health science at the University of California Davis (UCD) and holding a DDS degree from Turkey with extensive experience running oral healthcare projects worldwide. Currently, he is the principal investigator of Qushtapa refugee camp oral health project in…

Telehealth is the buzz-word describing this new era of professional healthcare delivery.  With this shift toward telehealth and virtual care, as well as studies pointing to the importance of including oral health into primary care, the conversation has increasingly included teledentistry and virtual dental care. Like telemedicine, teledentistry is a…

Revolutionizing Oral Health Care with Teledentistry Deamonte Driver was a 12-year-old who died from an untreated dental infection in 2007. Despite multiple emergency visits and medical care totalling $250,000 (including two brain surgeries), no one at that time had thought to do a simple dental examination that could have saved…