Dental Economics Article: Cloud-Based Practice Management Systems: The View is Worth the Climb
Dr. Jason Streeter, a Curve customer in Colorado Springs, CO, authored a fantastic article “CLOUD-BASED PRACTICE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS: The View is Worth The Climb” which highlights ...
Curve Dental Advances Patient Engagement with the Launch of Curve GRO
PROVO, Utah, January 13, 2021 -- Curve Dental, a leading provider of cloud-based dental solutions, today announced the release of Curve GRO, Curve’s next-generation patient engagem...
Tips for Increasing Productivity in Your Dental Office
Increasing productivity is on every dental practice’s 2021 wish list. These dental practice management software tips will get you off to a great start.
How COVID-19 Has Changed the Dental Staffing Model
The workplace had begun going virtual well before COVID-19 arrived on our shores. Lightning-fast internet, hot spots, online software, and video conferencing enabled more employees...
Why More Than Ever Dental Practices Are Switching to the Cloud
When COVID-19 hit the United States, it didn’t pull any punches. US News and World Report’s September 2020 article, “A New Study Explores COVID-19’s Significant Impact on the Denta...
Curve customer Dr. Heather Frodge discusses how Curve Hero cloud-based dental practice management software has helped her practice grow from one office to two.
How Teledentistry is Reshaping the Dental Industry
Telemedicine has a long history—possibly longer than you might know. According to the National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI), an 1879 article in the Lancet talked abo...
The Right Practice Management Software Can Be a Game Changer
In football, a great quarterback can elevate the performance of the entire team. An effective “field general” runs the offense, calls audibles, and makes adjustments on the fly. In...
Curve Hero's Business Intelligence Can Be a Practice's Difference Maker
Dentists who make the switch to Curve Hero typically come from server-based solutions. Many are most excited about the level of partnership Curve Dental brings to their practice, p...
Your highest priority is delivering an outstanding patient experience. That means providing excellent care and treatment and ensuring that the entire customer journey from scheduli...
How Curve Dental is Improving the Lives of Pediatricians
A pediatric dentist’s work can be incredibly rewarding and equally challenging. Cooperation from the little tyke can be a few minutes (or seconds!) as you try to create a treatment...
Declare Independence from your "Adequate" Dental Practice Management Software
You train your staff to deliver the best possible experience for your patients. You stress how important it is to be empathetic, helpful, and supportive because one bad visit can e...
Crocs. Spanx. Michelin. Roku. Gorilla Glue. Select Comfort. Curve Dental. So, what do these companies have in common? They’ve resisted the temptation to expand into new product mar...
How to Tell True Cloud-Based Software from Cloud Pretenders
As dental practice management software (PMS) in the cloud gains in popularity, many practices have begun to explore this growing trend. n reality, not all software that claims to b...
Learn the value of our integration with leading dental software products and how Curve’s API makes it seamless to connect other software to our platform.
Curve Dental Announces Strategic Partnership with MMG Fusion
MMG Fusion Completes Integration with Curve Dental Full integration gives dentists using Curve’s practice management software unprecedented ability to communicate with patients a...
At Curve Dental, our goal is to meet and, whenever possible, exceed the needs of our customers. To achieve this goal, we rely not only on research, experience, and market demands b...
Why Your Practice Deserves More from Your Practice Management Software
As any successful dental practice knows, your patients come first, so why keep them waiting with confusing billing processes and slow scheduling? Effective dental practice manageme...
Mastering the Work Life Balancing Act The notion of work-life balance is difficult for most people to master. And, nowhere is this struggle more prevalent than for dentists. Most ...
Protect Your Practice Could your patient data be susceptible to security breaches? Is your practice still running on Windows 7? If so, your patient data will be at greater risk st...
Curve Dental Announces Strategic Partnership with The Dentists Supply Company
Partnership Helps Dental Practices Retain Their Independence PROVO, UT – December 2, 2019 – Curve Dental, a leading provider of cloud-based dental solutions, today announced a part...
Solution Simplifies Dental Practice Communications, Delivers Better Patient Care PROVO, UT – November 27, 2019 – Curve Dental, a leading provider of cloud-based dental solutions, t...
Curve Dental Enables Prescriptions to be Sent from Any Device
PROVO, Utah, November 19, 2019 - Curve Dental today announced the release of enhanced functionality for ePrescribe, a module within the Curve Cloud Platform that enables dental pra...
When we decided it was time to rebuild our Perio Charting module, the first thing we did was look to our customers. Throughout the consultation, conceptualization, and design stage...
Introducing Recare, Referral and Treatment Plan Dashboards
We are excited to announce we’ve added six new Operational dashboards to Curve Business Intelligence. These dashboards give actionable insights into Recare, Referrals and Treatment...
It’s summer, and for many, that means it’s time to plant a lush garden, filled to the brim with your favorite vegetables. Imagine working hard day after day to plant and tend to yo...
The internet is an amazing place. Tons of information flying back and forth every day, connecting the world like never before in history. It seems like magic, only it is anything b...
At Curve Dental, we believe our customers should be in control, which is why we love receiving feedback and suggestions from our offices! We read all of your suggestions and look f...
You Don't Need a Crystal Ball to Forecast Your Practice's Future
Have you ever measured how effective the management of your practice collections is? Does your current software system offer a way to even compile that information? Understanding o...
Curve Dental Redefines Practice Management Software with Curve Business Intelligence
OREM, Utah, March 28, 2019 /PRNewswire/ -- Curve Dental announces the release of Curve Business Intelligence, the newest module within the Curve Cloud Platform that combines compre...
Invoices, payments, and appointments. Oh my! How are you supposed to make sense of all of the data that you take in on a daily basis? In today’s world, it may seem like an overwhel...
Did you know that you risk losing $.80 for every $1.00 that goes beyond 90 days past due? The foundation for any successful practice is ensuring you’re getting paid (in a timely ma...
Let’s take a moment to evaluate your current dental software. Keeping up with day-to-day tasks can be challenging and stressful, but you have other options to consider: How long do...
With thousands of patients to sift through, using only limited information to search will provide you with way too many results to navigate through in a productive manner. Curve He...
The Top 4 Benefits of a Subscription-Based Model for Your Dental Practice
If your practice operates using a server, you’re probably aware of the significant, upfront costs of that hardware purchase. In addition to the cost of the server, you’ll need IT p...
When we went live with our new statement design, the feedback was very positive, and there were some great suggestions for improvement too. Similar to relatives cornering you and r...
We know that making changes in your practice can be met with apprehension, so sticking with the status quo can seem like the easy, comfortable option. However, an aversion to chang...
Not all electronic insurance claims systems work seamlessly together. Sometimes there are special needs that need to be addressed separately outside of the usual claims system. Thi...
Curve Dental and Bluefin: A Winning Security and Payments Partnership
Healthcare Data Breaches are on the Rise According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights’ breach portal, there have been 261 healthcare ...
As we approach the new year, let’s take a look back at the performance and quality of your practice management software. This software is an integral part of running a successful d...
As per new regulations, Medicaid claim submissions require alphabetical ordering of tooth surfaces on procedures. What This Means To Curve Hero We upgraded Curve Hero to correctly ...
Plain text. It says everything you need to know in the name. Plain. Now, I don’t know about you but it's pretty bland to look at. Plain text isn't great for highlighting important ...
We’ve already discussed how time-consuming, expensive and risky servers can be. Moving your practice to the cloud seems like the logical option, but a change like that is not alway...
High Costs and Hidden Inefficiencies of Managing Your Own Server
Managing your own server requires a significant, ongoing investment from your practice — both financially and timewise. Whether your server goes down from a natural disaster or thr...
Understanding the Total Cost of Managing Your Own Servers
When you decide to invest in server-based practice management software for your practice, you might be focused on initial setup costs, but there’s more to it than that. We’ve compi...
Protecting patient data and privacy is a complex problem but it starts with keeping good security habits. One of the most effective habits we can build is to regularly change our p...
You can’t predict a natural disaster, but you can plan for it. Cyber security breaches get a lot of attention; unfortunately its pervasive across many industries in the world. But ...
Sometimes, I look at all of the papers on my desk and mentally prepare myself for the game of Three-card Monte that follows, as I look for a single piece of paper in that haystack ...
We all know that radiographs and other images are a critical tool in diagnosis and treatment planning. While you can always look inside the patients mouth, without radiographs you ...
At Curve Dental, we don't hold your data hostage. You've always had a way to download your practice's data to a simple text file from with the Curve Hero application. We call this ...
Earlier this year, we released our new Who’s On Deck feature. Many offices are already using Who's on Deck as part of their morning huddles to help understand the patients that are...
Quality is a big focus for us when building practice management software at Curve Dental. The same attention to quality applies when it comes to building a team. As a result of Bat...
In our ongoing commitment to improving security, we created a new role to control access to the Prescriptions module in Curve Hero. This new role provides the following functionali...
Signature Line Available On Treatment Plan Printout
Every time I employ my signature, it looks like I’m writing in Klingon. That can’t be English. Somehow, that weird looking thing has come to symbolize all that is me over the years...
Dental Billing with Itemized Adjustments Now Available
I'm happy to announce the release of an exciting new feature: the ability to itemized your adjustments before posting them. Until now, invoice adjustments in Curve Hero were automa...
I love nothing more than looking through pages and pages of reports, sorted by all types of variables, collated and compiled together into an alphanumeric nightmare. Did I say love...
Have you ever participated in beta testing for a new feature in Curve Hero? How about chatted with someone named “Jeff” about features like custom fields or our new statements? Hav...
Dental EOB vs. ERA Process: All About the Delivery
Are you tired of waiting for the insurance companies to snail mail Explanation of Benefits (or EOBs) to your office? According to the United States Postal Service, the target deliv...
Curve Dental is proud to announce that our newly revised account statements are now in the hands of everybody! We have listened to our customers and revised our statements into a m...
In the past few months you may have noticed we have been asking our users to fill out surveys in the Curve Hero welcome message. We hope we’re not being too much of an annoyance—ou...
In our continued journey to expand Curve Image functionality, we now offer the ability to add an Area of Interest annotation to any x-ray, intraoral image, pan, or any other dental...
Custom Payment Reports Include Payment Creator Info
Our custom payment reports now have the ability to report on both the full name of the user in the system who created the payment, as well as the date and time the payment was post...
Curve Dental Announces Release of Custom Fields Feature
In the landscape of practice management software features, one of the most highly requested is the ability to create custom fields. We recognized this need early on in our research...
Our customers have wanted the ability to set the hours when staff members can access Curve Hero for some time. Restricting users from using Curve Hero outside of office hours provi...
Sometimes bad things happen to good people. Unfortunately, according to Murphy’s Law, it will also happen at the most inopportune time and at a maximum cost. There really isn’t muc...
How does on-premise software compare to Curve Hero?
The benefits of using cloud based software vs On- Premises. Cloud based software provides your dental practice with much more efficiency, mobility, improved security along with mu...
Curve Dental customers can now benefit from MMG Fusion’s advanced patient engagement platform. Coupled with Curve Hero, our powerful practice management software, you have the tool...
Exposing the Hidden Costs of Server-Based Dental Software
The long-standing dental industry norm has been for practices to house their own dental management system with a server on-site or nearby. The consensus was that a server-based sol...
The Perfect Practice Management Software to Jump Start Your Practice
Over 27,000 dental professionals love Curve Hero, our cloud-based software, because it provides the functionality and patient data security no server-based system can offer—all at ...
Curve Dental: Practice Management Software for the Modern Dental Practice
The Top 5 Reasons Dentists Choose Curve: Hassle Free Technology, Personalized Patient Engagement, A Trusted Strategic Business Partner, Brilliantly Designed User Interface and The...
What Your Dealer Representative Doesn’t Know About the Cloud
A good dealer sales representative will be able to suggest a number of different solutions for any given need. But that doesn’t necessarily mean they are an expert on all things de...
The Most Important Questions to Ask When Buying Cloud-based Dental Software
To make sure you choose a technology solution right for your practice, use this handy list to ask the right questions when shopping for cloud-based dental software.
Communicating with Dental Imaging Software: Bridge vs. Integration vs. Native
When it comes to different dental technologies, there appears to be some confusion over how different technologies work together. The past 20 years have provided an amazing array o...
Unfortunately for consumers, the term “cloud” is often used by software developers to describe any functionality their product may have within a web browser. As a result, today, yo...
Chances are you have a server some place in your practice. Regardless of where it is located in your office, it represents a significant risk and challenge to your ability to compl...
Five Risks with Traditional Backup Solutions for Dental Software
Some practices might still use older floppy discs to store their data. At the end of a business day, an office staff member typically creates a backup of the practice’s data using ...
For the purposes of this paper, the term killer practice is slang for a dental practice firing on all cylinders. Generally speaking, a killer practice has the following attributes:
The importance of secure dental records should not be minimized. A lax or haphazard approach to protecting personal health information in a dental practice can put the business at ...
Uptime Comparison of Cloud-based vs Client/Server Systems
“Can you call back? Our server is down.” It’s almost a cliché. It happens with such regularity that we just take it for granted that it is just a fact of life. Many offices have gr...
Emergencies often catch us off guard as they can take on many different forms — flood, fire, earthquake, hurricane, tornado, theft — and in 2020, a global pandemic...
Tax-Free COVID-19 Reimbursements For You and Your Staff
Because COVID-19 has been declared a federal disaster, a little-known tax law provision could help you provide benefits to employees, thus boosting morale, and lower your tax liabi...
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