Dental News - DEXIS releases photo app and new Apple product

Robert Selleck, DTA

Sun. 1 December 2013

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NEW YORK, N.Y., USA: DEXIS used the Greater New York Dental Meeting Sunday afternoon to announce the release of the DEXIS photo app and the upcoming expansion of its imaging products to natively support Apple hardware and the OS X operating system (10.8 or newer).

Adam Palermo, DEXIS product manager, mobile solutions, was one of three DEXIS executives who addressed dental industry media representatives and other guests at an event a half block away from the Javits Center — at Studio 5 facility in a solid white room suggestive of an Apple advertisement. Palermo prefaced his remarks by sharing statistics on the dramatic growth in the use of mobile apps in dental practices, noting that 42 percent of DEXIS customers already use them and 83 percent are looking for additional apps to use in their practices. And the trend, Palermo said, is in the use of Apple products.

DEXIS Senior Director of Marketing Carsten Franke said the imaging company already had established itself on the PC platform, was now quickly expanding its mobile platforms — and would soon be launching DEXIS for the Mac.

Poorinima Gopalakrishnan, DEXIS product manager, software, explained the new Apple-compatible product in detail, noting: “It’s beautiful. It’s elegant. It’s simple, and it’s an intuitive user interface.”

Franke listed a number of awards the company has recently received, many based on product-review rankings by various dental media organizations, and he said DEXIS was committed to the development of clinically meaningful uses for mobile devices.

Franke demonstrated how DEXIS photo enables practitioners to send photos directly into the DEXIS Imaging Suite using a newer-model iPhone or iPod touch. Clinicians can frame the shot and capture the photo right into the patient record — wirelessly, automatically and instantaneously — without having to use cards, readers or another manual transfer method.

Dental professionals can capture patient ID photos that can be viewed from any imaging screen in DEXIS, or they can take and send images for the software’s extra-oral photo screen. Using the applicable mobile device and DEXIS photo, these tasks can be seamlessly performed when in proximity to and interacting with the DEXIS Imaging Suite software.

Additionally, the images are securely stored within DEXIS.

DEXIS photo will be available on the Apple App store at the end of December. To find out more about DEXIS photo, visit www.dexis.com/apps. DEXIS Mac is under development and is pending regulatory assessment and clearance. No orders can be taken yet, but it is scheduled to be released in the second quarter of 2014.

Once released, the native OS X software will provide clinicians seamless integration with leading Mac-based practice management programs Viive and MacPractice. The integration between DEXIS Mac, the DEXIS go app for patient communication, and the just released DEXIS photo app for extra-oral image acquisition also will expand opportunities for the Mac-based dentist. The apps collectively operate on iPad, iPhone and iPod touch. Recognizing the fact that both patient education and case presentation is immensely important, DEXIS Mac will support both Mac OS X full-screen mode and AirPlay mode for presenting on larger displays.

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