Practice Management System (PMS) Integration

Integrating DTX Studio Clinic with a PMS (I.e. through VDDS or OPP) / OPP web allows you to create a patient record and acquire an image from within the PMS. Preview the PMS images in DTX Studio Clinic or view them directly in the patient module.

The following systems are supported:

PMS systems that support VDDS protocol (stages 1 through 5 are supported by DTX Studio Clinic).

PMS systems that support Open Practice Protocol (OPP).

PMS systems that support OPP web protocol.

Patterson Eaglesoft 20 and above (using Eaglesoft API).

Dentrix G6 using the Dentrix DTX Studio Clinic Integrator.

Dentrix G7 Smart Image.

PMS systems that support CLINIVIEW™ (using Cliniview.ini).

Note

Please check www.dtxstudio.com or contact your local customer support to verify whether your PMS can be integrated with DTX Studio Clinic.

Enabling PMS Integration

To enable PMS integration:

Open the Settings dialog.

Click PMS integration.

Select:

Enable PMS integration to allow the communication between DTX Studio Clinic and your PMS system. Once Enable PMS integration is selected, new configuration settings appear:

Enter the port number for OPP protocol or other PMS services. The default OPP Web Port Number is 4435 and the Other Port Number is 4429.

Choose either As preview in DTX Studio Clinic or In DTX Studio diagnose to preview the PMS images in DTX Studio Clinic or directly in the DTX Studio Clinic patient module (only from within certain PMS systems).

Ignore PMS Practice ID to enable treatment of the same patient by different practices or dentists.

Update patient information to force DTX Studio Clinic to update any patient information based on information provided by the PMS system.

Single patient mode: Hide the DTX Studio Clinic patients list when a patient record is directly opened from within a PMS system.

Enable patient creation and import to allow the use of the button in DTX Studio Clinic. If this option is cleared and if PMS integration is turned on, patient data can only be loaded via the PMS system.

Now the PMS can communicate with DTX Studio Clinic and DTX Studio Core.

From within PMS, send the patient info to DTX Studio Clinic and start acquiring an image for this patient. If the patient record does not yet exist in DTX Studio Clinic, the patient record is created with the information from the PMS.

Certain PMS systems allow you to preview the PMS images in DTX Studio Clinic or directly in the DTX Studio Clinic patient module. The most recent diagnosis will be opened.

When new images are available for a patient, the image metadata and a generated thumbnail are sent to the PMS (only for certain PMS systems). A watermark is added to the generated thumbnails.

Image Export Settings

Enable or disable including image filters when exporting images, or set the default 2D image file format.

The default export mode is Filtered, meaning that images will be exported with previously applied filters. To export the original images instead, select Original.

Note

Exporting DICOM images is only available for images with export mode Original.

The default 2D image file format is PNG.