1dentist, LLC has recently launched in alpha FREE open source 1dentist Dental Practice Management Software available remotely on one of our servers.  The idea is to allow young dentists the ability to develop their practices using Cloud Computing for a very low monthly connection fee.

This idea meshes well with current interest in EMR.

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“As recently as September, Oracle Chief Executive Larry Ellison declared that online software companies “haven’t figured out how to make money.”"

–There is a way for software companies to make money offering online software and that is through bundling it with other more profitable revenue streams.

“Oracle currently has a net profit margin of 24.6%. In contrast, online software company Salesforce.com Inc. has a net margin of just 4.4%, though it spends a higher percentage of revenue on sales and marketing.”

–An online software company that offers a competitive product at a great price and that dominates all related worldwide urls in a category could inexpensively market itself online with a skeleton ‘sales and marketing’ budget.

“Overall, online software is estimated to account for just $9.5 billion of the $284 billion businesses will spend on software this year, according to research company IDC. But online-software sales are rising more than 40% a year compared with 3.4% for software overall.”

–Imagine combining free online software (charging only an inexpensive connection fee and optional support), EMR (electronic medical records) and vertical integration to improve the delivery of healthcare. It is being created and will have a competitive advantage.

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“Consolidation in the online health world has become more common in recent months as sites fight for scarce advertising dollars.”

Relying on scare advertising dollars is only one business model for online health information websites to offer free information. www.1dentist.com and it’s 500 affiliated dentistry urls has profitably followed a free content model that hasn’t relied on advertising for over a decade. We believe vertical integration in free online health care is the future and that is how we are growing: bricks & mortar practices, in-house web content creation, in-house SEO, in-house clinical education and free 1dentist cloud software for EMR.

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Netbooks are the key to Electronic Medical Records. We are working on it.

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Why did Henry Schein’s Dentrix Dental Practice Management Software division sell its Imaging component (digital x-rays and photography) to Danaher’s Dexis division? Dentists who purchased Dentrix from Schein now have to deal with two multi-billion dollar companies (Schein and Danaher) for Dentrix upgrades and support. A Dentrix source said that the cost for the upgrades and support, now split between the companies, will be comparable to prior experience with just Schein. But still the question is why? It seems anti-competitive for the end user, and in this era of emphasis on Electronic Medical Records (EMR), we need to know. I personally believe in EMR but this development does not make me want to recommend Dentrix to my students.

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