Idi Evolution It is an Italian company that, paradoxically, seems to go against its own interests: it is specialized in dental implantology and at the same time aims to reduce this type of intervention promoting and improving prevention . He has developed a advanced software for dental practices which, thanks to artificial intelligence, promises to make practice management more efficient, contribute to increasing the quality of clinical activity and above all solve the problem of communication with patients.
Alfred, as he explains to Wired Andrea Piantoni, chief innovation officer of Idi Evolution, is a software-as-service which on the one hand handles information management, personal data, clinical activity calendar, reports, even estimates and invoicing. On the other hand, it includes an entire section dedicated to communication that effectively translates the professional clinical notes in graphs and texts understandable to the patient. " Common management systems usually only organize information, not processes like our application does. And what's important to us is that the patient, once they leave the office, has a way to gain an understanding of their health status and treatment. We must strive to develop the relationship between patient and professional ," says Piantoni.
Keeping track of medical information can be difficult: perhaps everything is clear at the time, because your dentist has done his or her best to explain, but then at home, days later, you often have no memory of the details. Alfred provides a sort of digital medical record, accessible via smartphone, It shows everything: from the materials used, to the duration of the sessions, the condition, the treatment plan, photographs, x-rays, and everything in between. It's useful for understanding your situation, but also for a possible future consultation or as a history. "Nothing changes in the professional's daily routine, in terms of commitment, since the system takes care of reprocessing the usual data entry into a format that the patient can understand, " adds the specialist.
" We have also provided hardware components, such as a camera and other devices, capable of collecting information and automatically sharing it with the platform to make it accessible - recalls Massimiliano Rossi, the company's marketing manager -. The most challenging work was the decoding and transformation of technical information such as the odontogram into something clearer for the patient ."
In Italy, there are approximately 60,000 dentists and 40,000 specialist practices, but there is often little sharing of experiences. In this regard, Alfred proposes to pool data (obviously anonymized) to allow artificial intelligence to develop diagnostic patterns. " We have 1600 customers throughout Italy and currently around a hundred are helping us with bug fixing on the platform. We will officially launch Alfred in March 2023 , but the price will be based on the size of the practice, not the number of patients managed; there will be no difference between those who pay more and those who pay less. It will start at approximately 145 euros per month ," conclude Piantoni and Rossi.
Idi Evolution believes that Alfred could be an ideal solution to contribute to prevention and establish a standard for patient management. According to the two managers, the most striking finding emerging from market research is that 49% of patients who have undergone treatment in the last year He didn't schedule a routine check-up. Which is to say that you only go to the dentist when a problem arises.
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