Entire day’s worth of notes in 10 minutes

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Posted by: Dental Design 2nd May 2024

Kiroku, the digital note taking platform, enables clinicians to take notes 60% faster than other methods. Dr Martin Wanendeya describes the impact that inefficient note taking can have on individuals and the entire practice, and shares his experience of using Kiroku across his practice to improve workflows and reduce wasted time and money.

“I tried Kiroku and thought it was brilliant. I introduced it to my business partner and he thought it was brilliant, and that everyone should use it. You don’t realise the time you’re spending on notes until someone gives you back that time, like doing your entire day’s worth of notes in 10 minutes.

“When do clinicians write their notes? Either during clinical time, which is unproductive. During lunchtime, which isn’t great for them as that’s their leisure time. In the evening at work – the worst possible as they’re keeping a receptionist there late writing up notes and that’s costing us money that we shouldn’t need to pay. It’s much better if they can get it done quickly during work, or if really needed in the evening at home.

“I wanted everyone to have consistent and thorough notes which saves us having problems further down the line. If you have a way of taking the notes, it really helps your thinking if you have all the steps down. It gives you a protocol for doing the work. Also, you sometimes need to look back and ask why is this person having a problem, and your only remit really is the notes.

“It’s much easier and more straightforward to look at Kiroku notes and easily understand what has happened, compared to people with word document templates you have to scroll through.

“It’s easy to get dental nurses using Kiroku. I had a temp dental nurse last week and she found it very easy using it for the first time. It only took me a few minutes to show her.”