A new article, co-authored by CareQuest Institute researchers, stresses the importance of dental hygiene and treatment of gum disease to prevent nonventilator hospital-acquired pneumonia (NVHAP).
March 29, 2022
One year ago today — March 29 — we officially launched CareQuest Institute for Oral Health. Building on the strengths of past organizations, including the DentaQuest Partnership for Oral Health Advancement, we are accelerating oral health care transformation and moving faster, together, toward a health system designed for everyone.
What’s our “why?” What drives us?
How do dental patients feel about having secure online access to their oral health information through patient portals? Do they want the ability to share their dental information with their medical providers and potentially access education and appointment information?
Care coordination between dentistry and other health disciplines is essential to making sure that providers get the right information at the right time to deliver the best care possible to patients. But getting that coordination right is complex and challenging. It involves communication and information exchange by providers, payors, patients, and systems to help guide the delivery of safe. What’s more, dentistry is still fairly new to electronic health records and is playing catch up and integrate into the medical system.