Making a difference in Massachusetts fiscal year 2008: Boston University's economic and social impact sourcebook

This is the archive of an economic and social impact sourcebook for Boston University for fiscal year 2008

Dental Professionals in Non-Dental Settings

This report focuses on nine oral health innovations seeking to increase access to preventive oral health care in nondental settings. Two additional reports in this series describe the remaining programs that provide care in dental settings and care to young children. The nine innovations described here integrate service delivery and workforce models in order to reduce or eliminate socioeconomic, geographic, and cultural barriers to care. Although the programs are diverse in their approaches as well as in the specific characteristics of the communities they serve, a common factor among them is the implementation of multiple strategies to increase the number of children from low-income families who access preventive care, and also to engage families and communities in investing in and prioritizing oral health. For low-income children and their families, the barriers that must be addressed to increase access to preventive oral health care are numerous. For example, even children covered by public insurance programs face a shortage of dentists that accept Medicaid and who specialize in pediatric dentistry. The effects of poverty intersect with other barriers such as living in remote geographic areas and having a community-wide history of poor access to dental care in populations such as recent immigrants. Overcoming these barriers requires creative strategies that address transportation barriers, establish welcoming environments for oral health care, and are linguistically and culturally relevant. Each of these nine programs is based on such strategies, including:-Expanding the dental workforce through training new types of providers or adding new providers to the workforce toincrease reach and community presence;-Implementing new strategies to increase the cost-effectiveness of care so that more oral health care services are available and accessible;-Providing training and technical assistance that increase opportunities for and competence in delivering oral health education and care to children;-Offering oral health care services in existing, familiar community venues such as schools, Head Start programs and senior centers;-Developing creative service delivery models that address transportation and cultural barriers as well as the fear and stigma associated with dental care that may arise in communities with historically poor access.The findings from the EAs of these programs are synthesized to highlight diverse and innovative strategies for overcoming barriers to access. These strategies have potential for rigorous evaluation and could emerge as best practices. If proven effective, these innovative program elements could then be disseminated and replicated to increase access for populations in need of preventive oral health care

Social Media in the Dental School Environment, Part B: Curricular Considerations

The goal of this article is to describe the broad curricular constructs surrounding teaching and learning about social media in dental education. This analysis takes into account timing, development, and assessment of the knowledge, skills, attitudes, and behaviors needed to effectively use social media tools as a contemporary dentist. Three developmental stages in a student’s path to becoming a competent professional are described: from undergraduate to dental student, from the classroom and preclinical simulation laboratory to the clinical setting, and from dental student to licensed practitioner. Considerations for developing the dental curriculum and suggestions for effective instruction at each stage are offered. In all three stages in the future dentist’s evolution, faculty members need to educate students about appropriate professional uses of social media. Faculty members should provide instruction on the beneficial aspects of this communication medium and help students recognize the potential pitfalls associated with its use. The authors provide guidelines for customizing instruction to complement each stage of development, recognizing that careful timing is not only important for optimal learning but can prevent inappropriate use of social media as students are introduced to novel situations

Business Plan: dental monitoring

There is huge potential for improvement of the healthcare industry through the use of emerging technologies. The problem, however, is, that due to heavy regulation there are just few technology- based solutions that are utilised and the dental market particularly is not yet digitalised. As a basis for the business model, the current state of the art of technology and the adaptiveness capacity in healthcare was analysed. The outcome demonstrates, that there is an immense need for patient- centred solutions and that digital transformation in healthcare often fails due to the complex implication. Furthermore, trends and challenges have been analysed, which reveal that the main challenge is a lack of societal acceptance for current data protection regulations. The main trends are Artificial Intelligence (AI) and wearable medical devices. The internal analysis comes up with strategy propositions to turn the market potential into an actual income stream, and design the service in a way, that is easy to use and avoids the challenges outlined above. Finally, the income statement underpins the business´ potential in the market with numbers, based on assumptions and findings. To get key insights and prove the businesses relevance, the business model was presented to 20 dental market experts, who filled out a survey to gather data and draw conclusions from it. The primary research uncovered that the trends detected are relevant and the market need for such a solution is identified. Generally, the results are in line with the business model´s solution and its expectations.There is huge potential for improvement of the healthcare industry through the use of emerging technologies. The problem, however, is, that due to heavy regulation there are just few technology- based solutions that are utilised and the dental market particularly is not yet digitalised. As a basis for the business model, the current state of the art of technology and the adaptiveness capacity in healthcare was analysed. The outcome demonstrates, that there is an immense need for patient- centred solutions and that digital transformation in healthcare often fails due to the complex implication. Furthermore, trends and challenges have been analysed, which reveal that the main challenge is a lack of societal acceptance for current data protection regulations. The main trends are Artificial Intelligence (AI) and wearable medical devices. The internal analysis comes up with strategy propositions to turn the market potential into an actual income stream, and design the service in a way, that is easy to use and avoids the challenges outlined above. Finally, the income statement underpins the business´ potential in the market with numbers, based on assumptions and findings. To get key insights and prove the businesses relevance, the business model was presented to 20 dental market experts, who filled out a survey to gather data and draw conclusions from it. The primary research uncovered that the trends detected are relevant and the market need for such a solution is identified. Generally, the results are in line with the business model´s solution and its expectations

Dental Education Required for the Changing Health Care Environment

Peer Reviewedhttps://deepblue.lib.umich.edu/bitstream/2027.42/153648/1/jddjde017022.pd

Teledentistry in Arizona : initial development

abstract: This manual describes the experience of the grant project, reports the progress made by the first five teledentistry providers in Arizona, and shares the learned lessons in the installation of teledentistry hardware/software and use of teledentistry technology in supporting dental care

Advances in Teaching & Learning Day Abstracts 2004

Proceedings of the Advances in Teaching & Learning Day Regional Conference held at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston in 2004

Advancing Ehealth Education for the Clinical Health Professions

This is the final report of a project that aimed to encourage and support program coordinators and directors of Australian undergraduate and postgraduate coursework programs in all allied health, nursing and medical professions to address the need for Ehealth education for entry-level clinical health professionals

Training New Dental Health Providers in the U.S. (Full Report)

This 52 page report explores the interest and need to establish new midlevel dental providers in the U.S. The genesis of this interest is concern about access to care for underserved populations whose higher oral disease rates and unmet oral care needs are well documented.  This document was published December 2009 and updated June 2010