Dental Tablet PCs | Áù¾ÅÉ«Ìà IT Services
The School of Dentistry has utilized tablet-style portable PCs for the past few years as a required technological adjunct for students, including those in the Dental Hygiene program. The primary purpose of the utilization of the academic/clinical software is for clinical chair-side applications.
Wireless Internet in the clinic enables students to access patient education websites at chair-side, or anywhere on the Corktown Campus, using their tablet PCs. This allows students to provide visual references and print materials for their patients to take home.
Below are a few highlights:
- Patient demographic data
- Patient arrival notification
- Patient appointment scheduling: performed within operatories
- Medication websites
- Product websites
- Explanations for health-related conditions (Google search)
- Billing of completed procedures
Faculty members have the ability to enter and track student performance at chair side. Highlights include:
- Clinical Evaluation System
- Student performance
- Clinical Performance Monitoring System
- Real-time, on-line chair side evaluation of students
- Elimination of data entry costs
- Elimination of time lags between rendered care and data entry
- Generation of reports
Classroom/Other capabilities:
- Class lectures/PowerPoint presentations downloaded from course websites
- Lecture notes added directly to PowerPoint presentations with an attached stylus
- Case-based examinations utilizing cases found on
- More efficient access to email, Blackboard.com, and course evaluations