Epic Carelink - CE Dojo

Q: Are your courses approved for CE by the Board?

CE Dojo is certified as a national provider of continuing education (CE) through the Academy of General Dentistry's (AGD) Program Approval For Continuing Education (PACE). Most state regulatory agencies recognize AGD PACE programs as legitimate sources for continuing education. We suggest you contact your specific state regulatory agency for further clarification if necessary.

In my brief tenure as an academic oral & maxillofacial surgeon and through advanced graduate studies in clinical informatics at Oregon Health & Sciences University, I gained a real working knowledge of the benefits of the EPIC electronic health record (EHR).

EHR implementation gained heavy momentum during the Obama presidency as the result of the HITECH act which provided among many things financial incentives for health care entities to adopt meaningful use activities. Meaningful use activities were a set of criteria which brought forth gradual EHR adoption and was promoted through Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement incentives. The goal of these activities was to make patient data more accessible to doctors and patients themselves, to improve the exchange of information between institutions, to improve insurance integration within health care systems, and to hopefully help decrease the cost of care among many others.

The EPIC EHR system is by far the #1 EHR in the USA, if not the world. Health care providers within an EPIC care system have unlimited access to patient health care information on a number of different platforms (desktop, mobile) both local and remote. And anybody these days who has an a relationship with a major healthcare entity as a patient should be well award of the benefits of the patient access portal MyChart. EPIC even has a dental EHR named “Wisdom”.

But what most dental providers do not realize is that they too can have access to a local or regional health care entity’s EPIC EHR through a resource called EPIC CareLink. While you cannot add information to the EHR, the benefit is that you can easily lookup a patients entire EHR without having to request records, etc. Further, if communication is desired between your patients medical providers, you are provided the credentials to exchange information electronically in the EPIC platform through EPIC Mail.

Dental providers should take the opportunity to partake of this highly useful capability. It’s fast, it’s convenient, and it’s free. Simply look for CareLink with your nearest neighboring health care institution and fill out the application. For example, here in North Carolina I could apply for CareLink access through University of North Carolina Healthcare or Duke Healthcare – both are EPIC institutions. If you are a licensed health care provider, you have a legitimate opportunity to request access.

EPIC CareLink will help you improve the care you provide your patients. Period. Do it.

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Are your courses approved for CE by the Board?

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CE Dojo is certified as a national provider of continuing education (CE) through the Academy of General Dentistry’s (AGD) Program Approval For Continuing Education (PACE). Most state regulatory agencies recognize AGD PACE programs as legitimate sources for continuing education. We suggest you contact your specific state regulatory agency for further clarification if necessary.

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Getting Started

Ok, I paid my registration fee. What do I do now?

Category: Getting Started

Once you have paid your course registration fee, you will be able to access your course after you sign-in to your user account…which you just created. But you need a password!

Did you receive these emails?

A transaction receipt
A course confirmation
General User Instructions
Log-in details
And possibly others…

Are those emails in your “Inbox”? If not, check your spam folder. If they are in your spam folder, your email provider (or domain) is filtering messages from ce-dojo.com. If your registration emails from CE Dojo are being sent to spam, see our FAQ “I can’t find any emails from CE Dojo!!”.

One email provides you with log-in details you specified during registration. But, it will also prompt you with a link to set your password. When complete, these two credentials – user name and password – will provide access to your “account”. Write these down. If you forget your password, you can reset it yourself – see our FAQ “I forgot the password to my CE Dojo user account!”

Now that you have your password in hand, you can log into your account to access your course(s).

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I can’t find any emails from CE Dojo!!

Category: Getting Started

Often times email services (Google, etc) will filter email away from your inbox. Did you check your spam folder? But, simply moving our email out of spam to your inbox will NOT prevent future emails from meeting the same demise. The solution is to add email addresses from CE Dojo to your contact list.

If you do not find any email communications from CE Dojo in any of your email folders – including spam – there is a very real possibility your internet service provider (ISP) may have a firewall that is blocking our email. We have found that even adding our email addresses to your contact list does not resolve this problem. We have identified a couple of problem ISPs:

RoadRunner (nc.rr.com)
Apple (iCloud.com)
Embarq
Frontier
HughesNet
And others…

In this case, there is no resolution to this problem other than to create a “free email” account with Gmail, YahooMail, Hotmail, etc. Provide CE Dojo with your new email address and we’ll update our records. Again, don’t forget to add us to your contact list!

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Are your courses approved for CE by the Board?

Ok, I paid my registration fee. What do I do now?

I can’t find any emails from CE Dojo!!