Locum Dentist Handover Notes.
An app idea for dental clinics.
A structured handover form a locum dentist fills at the end of a shift so the next dentist knows what was started, what is unfinished and what the patient was told.
What the search found
- Who pays
- Dental clinic owner who hires locums
- The problem
- Locums walk into a clinic with no idea what the last dentist started. The owner gets calls weeks later about unfinished crowns and patients in temps, and nobody can say what the patient was told.
- The gap
- Practice management software is built for the permanent team and the patient record. It has no shift handover object. Nothing in the results shows a product that captures what a locum started and what the next dentist must finish.
- Already out there
- CareStack carestack.com
All-in-one dental practice management software. Built around the practice's own patient record, not around a locum's shift handover.
- DentiMax dentimax.com
All-in-one dental practice management software. No handover workflow for temporary clinicians.
- Henry Schein Dental henryschein.com
Practice management software with workflows for the practice team. Does not address locum handover.
- CareStack carestack.com
- People asking for it
- Quitting my job. How to handle undelivered crowns? reddit.com
A dentist has multiple undelivered crowns and patients in temps and does not know how to hand them over.
- LAW QUESTION reddit.com
A dentist is told they must come back and finish unfinished treatment, mostly dentures from wax try in to finish.
- Locum dentistry , worth it? reddit.com
Dentists discuss what locum work is actually like, including the lack of continuity.
- Quitting my job. How to handle undelivered crowns? reddit.com
- The big assumption
- Clinic owners will pay for a handover tool when they could just tell locums to write notes in the existing practice software.
- Test it this week
- Ask five clinic owners who hire locums what happens today when a locum finishes a shift, and whether they have ever had a patient come back to unfinished work with no record of what was said. Offer to run the handover by email or a shared form for one clinic for two weeks.
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