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517 years ago today, Christopher Columbus set sail in search of a new route to China. As we are all aware his belief, though considered outlandish at the time, lead to the discovery of the “New World” and untold riches for Spain.
Just a few days ago, we celebrated the 40th anniversary of landing a man on the moon for the first time. When President Kennedy set forth the goal of landing a man on the moon by the end of the decade and returning him safely to Earth, many thought he was setting an impossible challenge.

What outlandish goal or impossible task have you set for you and your dental practice? Perhaps it is building your own building or reducing patient cancellations? How about improving your profitability and reimbursement rate from insurance filings? That one sounds fairly challenging to me. Regardless, of what they may be there is a new source of professionals in Indiana all dedicated to helping dental professionals achieve their goals and dreams.

The Indiana Dental Education and Resource Association (IDERA) was founded earlier this year for the express purpose of being a business resource for the Indiana dental community. While you learned how to do wonderful things for your patient’s teeth and dental health, chances are your time in school did not touch on the myriad of things that are involved in running a small business. And, let’s face it, a dental practice is just that – a small business. Whether finding a way to improve insurance reimbursement, a better way of staffing, providing benefits to staff, or reducing patient cancellations through dental office design and interior branding, the professionals that make up IDERA are all dedicated to lending a hand.

Check out IDERA’s website and create a profile. On this site the members post information, news, and tips. You can also attend an IDERA meeting free of charge. The next one is Friday, 14 August from 8:00 a.m. to 9:30 a.m. at the Abuelo’s at Trader’s Point. Lastly, mark your calendar for Thursday evening, 24 September starting at 6:00 p.m. when IDERA will be hosting a special CE event at the JA Center in Indianapolis.

I look forward to seeing you on Dental Talk Indiana soon and at meeting you at one of the dental events. I know you’ll be happy you checked them out!

This entry was posted on 3 August 2009 at 8:29 pm and is filed under dental office design, interior branding with tags cancellations, client experience, customer service, dental cancellation rates, dental design, dental experience, dental interior design, dental office, dental office branding, IDERA, interior branding, marketing, office design. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.