The Virtual, Global Community
for Anyone Interested in Dental Informatics

Funded by the National Library of Medicine

This community will help you to find resources in the dental informatics and dental technology field as well as connect you to other people to share ideas, problems and research opportunities. Become our member #1047!

What is Dental Informatics?

Current Awareness Service Released. As of August 2009, a new feature is available on the DIOC. The current awareness service sends email updates on information posted to the DIOC that is specifically relevant to you. As a DIOC member, you can get updates when other members add projects or papers related to your interests and information on members who you may want to collaborate with. To view your settings just go to your "my dioc" page and click on "DIOC automatic email updates".

Project Directory Released. As of December 2007, the new Project Directory is available. The goal of the Project Directory is to allow members to display what projects they are working on, find collaborators, and learn about possible funding opportunities.

Member Directory Released. As of November 2007, the new Member Directory is available. The goal of the Member Directory is for people interested in Dental Informatics to share information about themselves including their research, interests, location, publications, funding, cooperation partners, and even a recent picture.

Learning Center Released. As of November 2006, the Learning Center is available. Please explore this resource which serves as starter for everyone new to dental informatics. The FAQ-like format allows you to navigate easily to the questions you always wanted to ask. Let us know if you can't find the answer to your question!

New Publication Archive. Have you ever had problems trying to find research papers about dental informatics? Our archive contains over 950 papers related specifically to dental informatics.

Become a member. Members of the DIOC can get notified about new developments in the field, can add information to DIOC, can leave comments on all pages, update their personal profile and access other members' profiles, and add keywords to papers in the archive. Members are not restricted to a specific discipline, association membership, nationality or qualification, and membership is free. Register here.

Sponsors. We gratefully acknowledge the support of the following sponsors:
National Library of Medicine: 1-G08-LM-8667-1A1
American Medical Informatics Association: DI-WG
Center for Dental Informatics, School of Dental Medicine, University of Pittsburgh
 

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News

ADEA Dental Informatics Section elected new Councilor and secretary

02/10: ADEA Dental Informatics Section elected new Councilor: Muhammad Walji (3 ), DDS from The University of Texas Dental Branch at Houston and a new secretary: Amit Acharya (30 ), BDS, MS from the Marshfield Clinic Research Foundation.

Press release for DIOC

01/10: Titus Schleyer elected to the American College of Medical Informatics. Read more here.

Oral health research database

11/09: The University of Texas Dental Branch receives NIH grant to develop a searchable, interuniversity oral health research database. UT Dental Branch

Dental schools left out of HITECH?

10/09: Testimony to HIT Policy Committee sheds light on obstacles to electronic health record initiative.

HITECH Act for dentists?

09/09: Story about federal stimulus money for certified EHRs on iHealthbeat.

New Dental Informatics Book

09/09: The book, Dental Computing and Applications: Advanced Techniques for Clinical Dentistry has recently been published. Andriani Daskalaki presents the latest technological applications and advanced research findings of computing in clinical dentistry. More information including how to order can be found here.

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