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Our Mission
The mission of the Office of Dental Informatics is to ensure an information technology system (hardware, software, and personware) that supports the School's education, research, patient care and service mission. To achieve its mission the staff of Dental Informatics will:
- Provide reliable, highly available, scalable and state-of-the-art infrastructure that is secure, fiscally sound, and has responsive support;
- Collaborate with others on campus and around the world to leverage existing resources;
- Enable the School's community to make optimal use of the information technology resources through information dissemination and training;
- Seek out, understand and respond to the information technology hardware, software and application system needs of the School's community; and
- Research new technologies and best practices, and convey these findings to the School's community.
Guiding Principles
- Provide services in a professional manner.
- Work cooperatively with University communities.
- Provide exemplary services that serve as a standard for others.
Organizational Structure
The Office of Dental Informatics is directed by Lynn Johnson, PhD, with administrative support provided by Diana Blackford. We comprise three areas:
- Technology Services, director: Kerry Flynn
- Applications Services, director: Roger Gillie
- Digital Learning Services, director Dan Bruell
Recent Accomplishments
MiDent roll-out
The Dentistry Clinic Information system recently became MiDent, a suite of patient and academic clinical information. Student clinics have a new computer workstation at each dental chair, as does the pre-clinic simulation lab. Many processes support electronic records while other processes are in progress to change over to the electronic record capability afforded by MiDent. Tremendous university support enables our progression to a fully integrated information system that supports evidence based research. Numerous projects abound to swiftly move all areas of clinical treatment to the vision of reliable, highly available and state-of-the-art infrastructure that is secure, fiscally sound and has responsive support.
miTools roll-out
miTools is a suite of web pages brought together to support the School of Dentistry business. These web pages provide a consistent user experience for information searches and navigating departmental business and calendars. Academic course, clinic manuals, faculty and staff business are available in miTools presented over the web in your favorite browser. Electronic forms are easier to get approved and allow you to interact with key information while away from the School. Improved communication and ease of use are key elements to better enable the School's community to make optimal use of information technology resources.
SimLab hardware
In 2008 we successfully installed 110 Mac-minis into the Sim clinic. The workstations are currently being used for online testing. In 2009 we will look to fully implement MiDent into the Sim Lab for the D1 and D2 students.
Cake based on our new site design, courtesy of Erica Hanss
Current Projects
miVault Implementation - Fall 2009
To meet the increasing demand for secure storage, Technology Services will deploy our new scalable NAS solution provided by EMC. The solution will provide secure storage, reliable backups and redundancy for the school's community.
Network Transformation - 2009
Research Initiatives
Digital Signage Project
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