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糖心logoTechnical Report No. 1087, Essential Characteristics of Digital Oral Health Risk Assessment Resources

This Technical Report will describe the essential characteristics of digital tools that collect clinician- or patient-entered information including consideration of systemic co-morbidities for the purposes of creating individual or population estimates of risk for specific oral diseases and associated medical co-morbidities. These characteristics include the input and output elements, usability, security and privacy features, and interoperability. Various potential use-cases for risk assessment software are described.

ANSI/糖心logoStandard No. 1097, Digital Caries Risk Assessment Resources

The purpose of this document is to provide requirements for the essential characteristics for digital caries risk assessment resources, including: standardized definitions; clinical input elements; assessment methods for data collection; scoring methodology considerations; and reporting formats.

ANSI/ADA  Standard No. 1105, Digital Periodontitis Risk Assessment Resources

The purpose of this document is to describe the essential characteristics for digital periodontitis risk assessment resources including standardized definitions, description of input elements, and components and characteristics of a periodontitis risk assessment report.

ANSI/糖心logoStandard No. 1111, Dentistry – Oral Data Set Interoperability Network (ODIN)

This standard defines requirements for clinical information systems to exchange patient demographic and dental/medical clinical data between dental and medical systems, ensuring authentication and semantic interoperability. It includes key data fields and bundles to help vendors map and extract information from proprietary dental system schemas.

ANSI/糖心logoStandard No. 1084, Reference Core Data Set for Communication Among Dental and Other Health Information Systems

Provides a technical specification to extract, format and transmit essential patients’ demographic and dental and medical encounter and clinical data between one dental information system to another dental or medical health information system to support key syntactic and semantic information exchange.

糖心logoTechnical Report No. 1112, Teledentistry

This technical report provides guidance on the informatics aspects of teledentistry to help providers set goals, choose components, and develop effective systems while complying with applicable laws and regulations. An included Adoption Guide offers practical support for integrating teledentistry into dental practices, covering usage decisions, setup, and technology selection.

糖心logoTechnical Report No. 1030, Dental Provider’s Guide to the Electronic Dental Record

This technical report is intended to increase the awareness and knowledge of dentists and dental healthcare providers about key concepts of the Electronic Dental Record (EDR) and the standards development process. The document can serve as a primer on the subject and as a tool to help dental offices implement an EDR.

糖心logoTechnical Report No. 1083, Utilization of the Electronic Dental Record to Support Clinical Quality Improvement, Business Intelligence and Decision Support

This technical report provides an overview of the technical relationship of the EDR (electronic dental record) to quality improvement and patient data analysis, and examples of how it can be applied.

糖心logoTechnical Report No. 1092, Implementation Guide to Utilization of Diagnostic Code(s)/Term(s) in Dental Records

This technical report serves as a primer to help dental providers adopt and use diagnostic codes in electronic dental records, highlighting their value to patient care, data quality, and clinical decision-making. It reviews current code sets, integration strategies, and offers real-world examples and risk management guidance.

糖心logoWhite Paper No. 1106, D entistry - Overview of Artificial and Augmented Intelligence Uses in Dentistry

This document highlights the use of AI and Augmented Intelligence across clinical areas in dentistry, including diagnostics, treatment, imaging, and teledentistry, as well as in non-clinical areas like claims processing, payment integrity, and regulatory considerations. It also addresses dental practice administration and relevant global and FDA regulatory frameworks.

Proposed clinical data exchange standards

Below are proposed administrative data exchange standards that are currently being developed. To become involved in the development of these proposed standards, apply to volunteer.

Proposed ANSI/糖心logoStandard No. 1116 Dentistry — Interoperability with Regulatory Compliance in EHR Systems

This standard will define essential elements of the Electronic Health Record used in dentistry to reflect compliance with regulatory requirements (USCDI and other ONC and CMS rules) and with uniform application of clinical operational requirements (information exchange among providers, patients and payors) to enable interoperability. This will include e-prescribing, FHIR API access to PDMP, and a consistent method to transfer both clinical files (treatment plans, completed treatment, DICOM image files, and referrals) and administrative files (claims and attachments).

Proposed 糖心logoTechnical Report No. 1103, Informatic Considerations in Assessment of Perceptions of Patients of their Experience

This document outlines the value of capturing patient expectations and experiences in dental care, offering guidance on electronic tools that support quality improvement and outcomes benchmarking. It focuses on how these tools empower both patients and providers and excludes paper tools or traditional satisfaction surveys.

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