This MacNews Category Review begins our look at dental software for Mac OS X. Products covered include ACE Dental, A.I.med EMR & Practice Management Software, apolloniaX, AVIS, Carnoy, ChartEvolve, ComChart EMR, ConceptDraw Medical Edition, CygnaScope FireWire Series Intraoral Camera, DentalManager, Dental Office Manager, Escape Medical Viewer, EXmedic, Freedom, Genie, Gesdent 2, Dental, IPLab, KIP Deluxe Medical Office and Billing Software, MacDent Pro, MacPractice EDR, Mango, MD-JADE Medical Workstation, Med-Center, NueMD, Media Log, MediaCare Pro, MediaClick, MediaFile and MediStory.

° [url=http://www.accountmaster.com/dental.html]AccountMaster Dental Laboratory[/url] (shown) handles dental invoices and accounts receivable.

° [url=http://www.ace-dental.com/]ACE Dental[/url] is a comprehensive practice management system for dental offices. It offers scheduling, plain paper forms, electronic claims submission, accurate insurance estimation, flexible cycle billing, as well as a host of other features. A complete video tutorial is included with the program. ACE Dental runs on any Mac. [url=http://www.ktinet.net]aMac Digital Radiography System[/url] is a dental radiographic system built for Mac OS X. aMac will "bridge" to most practice management systems available for the Mac.

° [url=http://www.acrendo.com/]A.I.med EMR & Practice Management Software[/url] is Electronic Medical Record (EMR) and Practice Management Software for medical practices of all sizes and specialties.

° [url=http://www.procedia.de/]apolloniaX[/url] is an application for dental practitioners. Apollonia is based on the German law specifications. To use it in other countries the developers are able to redesign parts of the software.

° [url=http://www.nimbus-innovations.de/]AVIS[/url] is a medical management system specially designed for company doctors. AVIS manages the patients' records, dates and more. It's available in three versions.

° [url=http://www.biovolution.com/]Carnoy[/url] is an image analysis program designed for carrying out measurements on digital micrographs obtained from light or electron microscopes.

° [url=http://www.thecimsgroup.com]ChartEvolve[/url] is designed to help medical personnel create notes about patients that are easy to read and HIPAA compliant. It's Mac OS X compatible.

° [url=http://www.comchart.com]ComChart EMR[/url] is a medical record application that's based on the FileMaker Pro database engine.

° [url=http://www.conceptdraw.com]ConceptDraw Medical Edition[/url] is flowcharting software for creating diagramming illustrations. It includes more than 400 task-related objects, as well as specialized image sets in topics. It's compatible with Mac OS 8.6 or higher and Mac OS X.

° [url=http://www.cygnus-technologies.com]CygnaScope FireWire Series Intraoral Camera[/url] combines the speed of FireWire with dental camera technology. It can be used to examine a patient's mouth, upper and lower arch, smile and facial areas.

° [url=http://www.larix.nu]DentalManager[/url] is practice management software for dentists that's available in English, Dutch, French and other languages. It's designed to provide a multi-user (dentists and assistants) paperless office replete with patient administration, treatment administration, graphic appointments book, integrated digital photography and radiology connections, bookkeeping, correspondence, mailing, reporting, video registration and patient flow control.

° [url=http://http://www.dom2.com/]Dental Office Manager II[/url], which comes in three versions (Basic, Standard and Gold) includes features for patient/insurance billing, recall system, management reports and more.

° [url=http://www.escape.gr]Escape Medical Viewer[/url] is a DICOM viewer and converter.

° [url=http://www.exmedic.com]EXmedic[/url] handles all aspects of medical billing, insurance profiles and patient scheduling; it also includes a multi-homing e-mail subsystem.

° [url=http://www.jonoke.com]Freedom[/url] is a medical practice management solution with a built-in dictation system.

° [url=http://www.geniesolutions.com.au]Genie[/url] is medical software for Australian doctors. It covers all clinical and billing tasks, including prescription-writing, referrals, pathology requests and automated downloads, consultation summaries, recall system and more.

° [url=http://www.visiodent.com]Gesdent 2[/url] is dental office management software that's open-ended and modular.

° [url=http://www.hwdental.com]iDental 1.8[/url] a Universal Binary dental office management system. It provides migration of balances forward and historical ledger items, Note Templates with Images, new reports (with export ability for data manipulation), an integrated Documentation Viewer, One Step Backup from within iDental, both patient and procedure-based recall, and SmartScheduling.

° [url=http://www.scanalytics.com]IPLab[/url] provides scientific imaging, visualization, analysis and laboratory automation in a single package. Applications include microscopy, biomedicine, astronomy, remote sensing and more.

° [url=http://www.kipdeluxe.com]KIP Deluxe Medical Office and Billing Software[/url] is medical office management and billing software.

° [url=http://www.macdentpro.com/]MacDent Pro[/url] is a Mac OS X only dental solution. Its features include scheduling, 3D charting, prescriptions, image manipulation, digital x-ray link, treatment planning, e-claims and more. Scheduling is the centerpiece of the software.

° [url=http://www.macpractice.com]MacPractice EDR (Electronic Dental Records)[/url] is designed to make it easy for dentists who use MacPractice DDS with MacPractice EDR to customize the forms provided by MacPractice and create new ones. Dentists can create and interact with clinical data including health history and clinical notes with graphic annotations on teeth as they are accustomed to doing in paper.MacPractice plans to make EDR interactive with the ledger in MacPractice DDS. And MacPractice plans to release MacPractice Tooth Chart in the first quarter of 2008.

° [url=http://www.mangodental.com/]Mango[/url] is dental software designed to streamline patient management with scheduling and billing resources, including HIPAA compliant e-claims service.

° [url=http://www.mevis-diagnostics.de]MD-JADE Medical Workstation[/url] is medical workstation software for soft copy reading images such as computer tomography (CT), magnetic resonance images (MRI) or digital radiography (CR, DX, MX).

° [url=http://www.databaseconstructs.com]Med-Center[/url] handles patient accounts, cases, scheduling, procedures administered, insurance, billing, accounts receivable, referral tracking, prescriptions, electronic records, and patient contacts.

° [url=http://www.nuesoft.com]NueMD[/url] is a practice management solution delivered over the Internet. NueMD allows interactive online eligibility verification, claims submission, and reporting and analysis for a monthly subscription fee. NueMD claims that it's solution is the first Internet-based and Mac-enabled practice management solutions.

° [url=http://www.dsoft.com/]Media Log[/url] is software for recording and tracking personal medical and dental data.

° [url=http://www.openmed.it/]MediaCare Pro[/url] is medical practice software.

° [url=http://www.cegedim-logiciels.com/]MediaClick[/url] is a solution for management and electronic billing for health care professionals. It includes patient records, appointments, prescriptions and accounting and other features.

° [url=http://www.jonoke.com/]MediaFile[/url] is a patient care, practice management, RIS and PACS tool.

° [url=http://www.prokov.com/index2.html]MediStory[/url] is a solution for the management of medical patients’ files. It includes administrative and medical patient management tools.

Next week: part two