Dental Practice Optimizer® from Sikka Software Corporation - I have often emphasized watching the numbers in your practice to make your dental business the best it can be. I want you to be aware of a new company, Sikka Software Corporation, that offers products that go beyond where dental practice-management systems stop. It reads data automatically from all major practice management systems, such as Dentrix®, EagleSoft®, SoftDent®, Easy Dental®, MOGO®, PracticeWorks®, and others, and your financial systems such as QuickBooks®, PeachTree®, Microsoft Money®, and others to optimize your business of dentistry using an easy-to-use dashboard. Until now, your collection and production has been completely separate from your accounts payable and financial systems. You had to go to two or more separate locations to get information on suppliers, costs, account balances, regulatory and compliance information, license and CE units management, and emergency management. Now there is a single place where you can manage all aspects of the business of your practice. Sikka Software builds business management systems such as Fee Schedule Optimizer that reads frequency, revenue, current fees, time units, lab costs, chair time splits, doctor’s and assistant’s time value, and dental cost of living. In addition, it establishes a profitability vector that it compares to a Zip code-level database of more than 55,000 dentists, and recommends a fee schedule that is more aligned with the unique way each dentist practices. The Dental Practice Optimizer® (DPO) calculates information on practice vital signs, valuation analysis, overhead, inventory management, suppliers, costs, account balances and much more from your own practice data. In short, DPO automatically tracks everything in your practice and runs as a service in the background with easy setup and customization. DPO integrates the highly successful Fee Optimizer Fee Schedule Optimizer® and Accounts Receivable Management System from Sikka Software Corporation. You can finally take charge of optimizing fees, maximizing profitability, removing the headache of runaway receivables, and recovering cash in inventory from DPO. Contact Sikka Software Corporation by calling (866) 856-7119 (toll free) or go to www.sikkasoft.com. Be sure to ask for the name of someone in your area who is using the system. These systems will really reveal where your practice is and where it could be.

Dental Economics January, 2007

Author(s) : Joe Blaes