Dental Service Organization affiliation: Understanding key aspects of State Dental Practice Act compliance.

Dental Service Organizations (DSOs) are an increasingly visible and available practice option for new dental graduates. While guidance has been published to help dental students make informed decisions when considering a DSO affiliation, they have not focused on the complexities of assessing compliance with controlling state laws. Accordingly, this Perspectives article provides a concise summary of the common components of state regulatory provisions across the United States to support an understanding of the corporate practice of dentistry and compliance considerations. The guiding principles to consider include ownership or proprietorship of and control over a dental practice; control over dental offices, equipment, and materials; employment of dental personnel; and control over clinical judgment. This article should be helpful to students who are considering a DSO affiliation and educators who prepare them to enter dental practice.

Posicionamiento de la Asociación Española de Pediatría de Atención Primaria (AEPap) sobre el modelo de asistencia infantil / Stance of the Spanish Association of Primary Care Pediatrics (AEPap) on child care model

La Asociación Española de Pediatría de Atención Primaria (AEPap) hace una reflexión sobre el modelo de asistencia infantil español, sus problemas y los antecedentes de algunos países de nuestro entorno. Así mismo, y frente a los que cuestionan el modelo español, hace una serie de propuestas para avanzar en la efectividad y sostenibilidad del modelo español (AU)

The Spanish Association of Primary Care Pediatrics (AEPap) has reflected on the model of Spanish child care, its problems and the background of some countries around us. Also, and in front of those who question the Spanish model, makes a series of proposals to advance the effectiveness and sustainability of the Spanish model (AU)

XX Jornadas de la Asociación Nacional de Médicos Forenses y XIII Jornadas Catalanas de Actualización en Medicina Forense / XX Symposium of the National Association of Forensic Pathologists and XIII Catalan Update Symposium in Forensic Medicine

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Teledentistry-assisted, affiliated practice for dental hygienists: an innovative oral health workforce model.

The 2010 U.S. Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) calls for training programs to develop mid-level dental health care providers to work in areas with underserved populations. In 2004, legislation was passed in Arizona allowing qualified dental hygienists to enter into an affiliated practice relationship with a dentist to provide oral health care services for underserved populations without general or direct supervision in public health settings. In response, the Northern Arizona University (NAU) Dental Hygiene Department developed a teledentistry-assisted, affiliated practice dental hygiene model that places a dental hygienist in the role of the mid-level practitioner as part of a digitally linked oral health care team. Utilizing current technologies, affiliated practice dental hygienists can digitally acquire and transmit diagnostic data to a distant dentist for triage, diagnosis, and patient referral in addition to providing preventive services permitted within the dental hygiene scope of practice. This article provides information about the PPACA and the Arizona affiliated practice dental hygiene model, defines teledentistry, identifies the digital equipment used in NAU's teledentistry model, give an overview of NAU's teledentistry training, describes NAU's first teledentistry clinical experience, presents statistical analyses and evaluation of NAU students' ability to acquire diagnostically efficacious digital data from remote locations, and summarizes details of remote applications of teledentistry-assisted, affiliated practice dental hygiene workforce model successes.

Physician integration is back--and more important than ever.

Current affiliation strategies tend to focus on joint ventures and employment. Careful planning and organizing of a joint venture can mitigate their associated legal, tax, regulatory, and cultural risks. The success of an employment model depends upon a compensation structure that aligns the incentives of physicians and the hospital. Fora successful affiliation program, hospitals should determine needs and trends, implement strategic planning, and conduct due diligence.