Why should every new dental patient fill out the same intake application regardless of how they came to the practice? Because uniform intake produces uniform data quality, simplifies front-office operations, and ensures no patient gets evaluated with less information than another. The temptation to give different forms to different patient categories, referrals from another doctor, returning former patients, new web inquiries, emergency arrivals, creates an intake matrix nobody can administer consistently. Front-office staff have to remember which form belongs to which patient type, mistakes happen, and some patients end up evaluated on partial information. The fix is one application for all [...]

Why should every new dental patient fill out the same intake application regardless of how they came to the practice? Because uniform intake produces uniform data quality, simplifies front-office operations, and ensures no patient gets evaluated with less information than another. The temptation to give different forms to different patient categories, referrals from another doctor, returning former patients, new web inquiries, emergency arrivals, creates an intake matrix nobody can administer consistently. Front-office staff have to remember which form belongs to which patient type, mistakes happen, and some patients end up evaluated on partial information. The fix is one application for all [...]

Why should every new dental patient fill out the same intake application regardless of how they came to the practice? Because uniform intake produces uniform data quality, simplifies front-office operations, and ensures no patient gets evaluated with less information than another. The temptation to give different forms to different patient categories, referrals from another doctor, returning former patients, new web inquiries, emergency arrivals, creates an intake matrix nobody can administer consistently. Front-office staff have to remember which form belongs to which patient type, mistakes happen, and some patients end up evaluated on partial information. The fix is one application for all [...]