I've got to echo what's being said here. This is absolutely the most backwards 'feature' I've ever seen. I wanted to trim down my images from public view, and being that I don't know absolutely everything there is to know about Imgur, I chose my images and selected to Hide them. I assumed this would hide them from being seen, but that I could still - through administrative options - be able to access them.
Apparently, that's not the case and rather than simply hiding more than half of my pictures, I have essentially deleted them. That is, of course, unless I copied and saved every link for some reason, rather than thinking I wouldn't need to save the links to the images saved on my account because they could be accessible through my account. Instead, I find out that not only are the pictures permanently hidden from my view even when logged in, but that the images are still accessible if I have the links to them.
In what way does any of that make sense? Would it not be far more logical to allow the owner of the account full rights in hiding or unhiding their own images, especially when taken into consideration the fact that hiding an image really only prevents it from being seen from the gallery, and is still entirely visible through a link. If I wanted to delete my images, I would have chosen to delete them.
DEXIS go is an optional patient image presentation. In order to transfer patient images to DEXIS go. It must first be deleted before adding new data. After hiding an image, it just disappears from my gallery (obviously). Able to undo this action, or to be able to delete it after hiding, or perhaps even unhiding.
I honestly cannot understand why this is even a 'feature'. Why offer the ability to permanently hide a picture in the first place? I understand having the ability to hide, but to hide the owner's pictures from themselves and leave them unable to unhide or delete them is ridiculous.
Now, if I wanted to get those pictures back, I'd have to pray that someone I've linked them to has saved the link for them, which of course is as obscure as this 'feature' is - not that I have a problem with the imgur links, though. That does nothing for the multitude of pictures I uploaded for my own use and did not bother giving links or copying links for. Furthermore, if for any reason I wanted to permanently delete those images (after all, why not, since I can't even use them now?), I have to go through a form to do so, rather than just being given the option to 'View Hidden Pictures' and being able to not only access them, but also unhide them or delete them.
Yes, I know the fallback response to this seems to be 'It says Permanently Hide', but really - that's hardly an answer to the people who are rightfully upset about the way this has been implemented. It does say Permanently Hide, but when so many people are voicing their opinions about the backwards nature of the opinion, one has to question why you're refusing to acknowledge it at all, or offer any sort of solution to something that is very clearly a horrible implementation of what could be a great feature.
The Patient Chart includes several toolbars to provide easy access to the charting tools. You can customize the Patient Chart to fit the needs of each user by hiding or repositioning the toolbars and adding or removing their buttons. You can also modify a toolbar's icons, or you can create a custom toolbar.
The following Patient Chart toolbars are available to you:
·Dentrix Modules
·Chart Module
·Chart Layouts
·Charting
·Patient Information
·Procedure Codes
·Progress Notes
·Clinical Notes
·Clinical Notes Template
Dentrix Modules
The Dentrix modules toolbar allows you to open other Dentrix modules.
Icon | Name | Description |
Family File | The Family File stores and displays important patient information, such as the patient’s name, address, phone number, health history, birth date, insurance coverage, employer, and referral information. | |
Ledger | Enter payments, file claims, print statements, set up financial agreements, and more. | |
Appointment Book | An electronic scheduler from which you can easily manage your patient appointments. | |
Office Manager | The Office Manager provides several tools and reports to evaluate and improve the management processes of your practice. | |
DXWeb | The DXWeb toolbar works in conjunction with eCentral to provide you with the tools necessary to connect your Dentrix software to the Internet. | |
Provides links to supported third-party X-ray and imaging systems you've installed on your computer; if none are installed, clicking this button displays a list of third-party digital X-ray and imaging systems that you can use with Dentrix. | ||
Quick Letters | Combine data from your Dentrix database with the word processing abilities of Microsoft Word to help you quickly create a letter for a single patient. | |
Quick Labels | Quickly print a variety of labels for a selected patient. | |
Continuing Care | Continuing Care provides a flexible way to monitor your patients’ pending dental care and communicate information and reminders easily and effectively with groups of patients. | |
Send Message | Use the Send Message feature to create and send e- mail messages to patients in your Dentrix database. | |
Questionnaires | Questionnaires helps your office go paperless by electronically gathering and storing the same patient information that is included on new patient forms, health history updates, and other paper forms used in your office. A red check mark in the icon indicates that the patient has filled out a questionnaire. | |
Health History | With Health History, you can assign medical conditions and allergies to selected patients. | |
Prescriptions | The Prescriptions module is designed to help you quickly create prescriptions and accurately track medicines prescribed to your patients. If a prescription bottle appears in the icon, the patient has a prescription. | |
Office Journal | Like a journal of your daily activities, the Office Journal has two main functions: to keep a record of past events and to remind you of events in the future. | |
Document Center | The Document Center allows your office to become paperless by scanning, capturing, and importing many types of documents, such as patient letters, EOBs (explanation of benefits), and referral letters or images (such as patient pictures and X-rays). These documents can be attached to patients, providers, insurance carriers, and referral sources. If papers appear in the lower drawer of the icon, the patient has documents saved to the Document Center. | |
Treatment Manager | The Treatment Manager gives you access to vital patient information, including treatment-planned work, balance, payment information, Office Journal entries, insurance information, and so forth. | |
Lab Case Manager | The Lab Case Manager is directly linked to the Appointment Book and allows you to create a case for the patient, ship it to the lab, and track its progress. | |
DDX | Send your lab cases to labs and exchange digital information with them using Digital Dental Exchange (DDX), an online network of dental practices, labs, and third-party technologies. | |
eDex | Manage and quickly search lists of patients (active, inactive, or archived), employers, insurance carriers, labs, non-patients, providers, staff, referrals, and other contact you may want to remember. You can also create custom contacts and contact categories to filter the Contacts List or even locate a patient's next appointment. | |
Opens the Dentrix Marketplace website from which you can purchase many products to enhance and expand your Dentrix platform. |
Patient Information
The Patient Information toolbar allows you to see information associated with your patients in the Dentrix database.
Icon | Name | Description |
Select Patient | Select a patient. | |
Patient Alerts | Displays any patient alerts for the selected patient. | |
Patient Picture | Displays the patient picture. | |
Patient Referrals | Displays any patient referrals. | |
More Information | Opens the More Information dialog box for the selected patient. |
Chart Module
Using the Chart Module toolbar, you can open the Perio Chart or Treatment Planner, change the work view of the Patient Chart, make notations, print a patient's chart, paint teeth and their surfaces, and open the Dentrix Presenter.
Icon | Name | Description |
Refreshes the data on other computers if your practice is set up with a network of computers. | ||
Prints the selected patient's chart. | ||
Edit or 'paint' the surface of a tooth to include pits and cusps. | ||
Changes the Graphic Chart to display primary, permanent, or mixed dentition. | ||
Make notations directly on the patient's chart. Notations are in the color and pen you select and can be viewed or hidden at any time. | ||
Perio | Opens the Perio Chart. | |
Treatment Planner | Opens the Treatment Planner. | |
Presenter | Opens the Dentrix Presenter. | |
Specify whether teeth are painted based on progress notes in the selected view or independent of the selected view. | ||
Specify whether progress notes appear only for the selected teeth or all teeth. | ||
Choose whether the charting or work chart view is the default view when the Patient Chart opens. | ||
Switch to the arch view so you can view treatment on the inner surfaces of the teeth. | ||
Switch to the model view and a 3-D representation of the entire mouth. |
Chart Layouts
The Charts Layouts toolbar lets you change the appearance or view of the Patient Chart.
Icon | Name | Description |
Displays the Work Chart view. | ||
Displays the Full Screen Chart view. | ||
Displays the Progress Notes for the selected patient. | ||
Displays the Treatment Planner Layout. |
Charting
The Charting toolbar allows you to create a complete clinical record for each of your patients. You can chart recommended treatment, treatment you or other providers perform, diagnostic codes, and conditions.
Icon | Name | Description |
Select a different provider from the list. | ||
Clear the selections from all selected teeth in the Graphic Chart. | ||
Type a procedure code, diagnostic code, or condition. Dentrix hides this icon when you post procedures using the Auto-State button. | ||
Record existing work performed by a provider outside of your practice. (Used almost exclusively when charting existing work for new patients). | ||
Record existing work performed by a provider within your practice. (Used almost exclusively when charting past work done by your office). | ||
Enter recommended treatment for a patient. | ||
Enter completed work and conditions for a patient. | ||
Assign several procedures the same status. After you click the Auto-State button, the next button you click remains selected until you click one of the other procedure status buttons. |
Procedure Codes
The Procedure Codes toolbar lets you use the Procedure Codes panel more effectively. With it, you can expand or collapse the procedure code categories and post or clear procedure codes.
Icon | Name | Description |
Expand All | Expands all Procedure Code categories. | |
Collapse All | Collapses all Procedure Code categories. | |
Posts the selected procedure codes for the appropriate treatment to the Patient Chart. | ||
Clear Selected Procedures | Clears the procedures you selected for a patient's treatment in the Patient Chart. |
Progress Notes
The Progress Notes panel makes it easy to quickly review a patient’s chart. The toolbar allows you to update the chart as necessary so that the patient's clinical record is always accurate.
Icon | Name | Description |
Set Complete | Click to set a treatment-planned procedure complete. | |
Delete | Remove a condition, treatment plan, complete procedure, existing procedure, or existing other procedure from the Progress Notes panel. You can delete multiple items simultaneously. | |
Invalidate a procedure and remove it from the patient’s chart while leaving it in the Ledger. | ||
Print the Patient Chart. | ||
Change providers. | ||
Attach dental diagnostic code to a procedure. | ||
Return to the default sort order of the progress notes. | ||
Show or hide treatment planned procedures. | ||
Show or hide completed procedures. | ||
Show or hide existing procedures. | ||
Show or hide conditions. | ||
Show or hide exams. | ||
Show or hide referrals. | ||
Show or hide clinical notes. | ||
Expand Notes | Show or hide any notes attached to procedures, conditions, or exams. |
Clinical Notes
Clinical notes are free-form notes that you can enter at any time. The toolbar provides you with the tools for creating, modifying, and managing clinical notes.
Icon | Name | Description |
Create a clinical note. | ||
Append an addition to a clinical note in history. | ||
Delete a clinical note. | ||
Save a clinical note. | ||
Copy a clinical note. | ||
Copy all of the clinical notes for the selected patient simultaneously. | ||
Sign a clinical note electronically. You cannot edit a signed note. | ||
Insert a new date and time in a clinical note. | ||
Change the provider for a selected clinical note. | ||
Change the date of a selected clinical note. | ||
Print a clinical note. | ||
Cut | Cut test from a clinical note. | |
Copy the text of a clinical note to the Windows Clipboard. | ||
Paste | Paste the text of a clinical note to the Windows Clipboard. | |
Perform a spell check of a clinical note. |
Clinical Notes Template
The Clinical Notes Template toolbar provides you with the tools to create and view clinical note templates.
Icon | Name | Description |
Expand all clinical note template categories. | ||
Collapse all clinical note template categories. | ||
Create, edit, and delete clinical note templates. You can also create, rename, and delete clinical note template categories. |