August 31, 2005
Hi-tech service for a smile
Mobile phone technology being used by Waikato District Health Board dental therapists has the potential to revolutionise dental health services across New Zealand, according to stuff.co.nz.
"The new system called DentIS is based on a personal digital assistant (PDA) and combines the facilities of a mobile phone and a hand-held computer.
The technology gives school dental workers fast, wireless access to the records of 54,000 Waikato children treated by the dental service and allows therapists to spend more time with children, rather than on administration.
"Given the often transient nature of children this means all we need is a name and date of birth to give us records and details of treatment," Diane Pevreal, acting manager of the school dental service said.
"(Previously) the dental therapists would update the clinical records for a child by hand and then courier these for scanning into a central database," Mrs Pevreal said".
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