Dental Healthcare Innovation

The dental industry is the perfect segment of the healthcare market for innovation. It's not too big, not too small, not too complex, not too simple. It's just right.

We've been working with our dental clients for over 20 years, creating novel, improved, and sometimes unprecedented solutions together. We call it Collaborative Innovation.

Innovative solutions

We've independently developed and partnered with clients to develop solutions including:

• Dental benefits system (including claims processing) for employers that self-funded their dental benefits.
• Oral health education site for consumers (was #1 in the world at one point).
• Web-based chairside patient education system for dental schools and dentists.
• Online video library for dentists (covering business and legal issues) for the members of a State Dental Association.
• Solutions for video learning with online quizzes for a major US dental school.
• Integrating dental videos in patient reminders for a major US dental school.
• Integrating dental videos for informed choice/informed consent within the practice management software for a major US dental school.
• Licensing dental videos to Dental Service Organizations.
• Differential diagnosis application prototype for evaluation by a major US dental school.
• Oral health portals for dental insurance companies.

What we bring to the collaboration

We've developed a diverse set of modular building blocks or "elements" that we can combine to create a wide range of healthcare solutions.

• Extensive library of dental content (written and animated videos) for dental signs/symptoms, dental conditions/diagnoses, dental procedures, prevention, dental terminology, oral anatomy, informed choice/informed consent, and oral-systemic connections
• Databases and algorithms that connect relevant content to each other and to dental codes
• Proprietary dental web-based content management system (CMS) to create websites and web applications
• Application Programming Interface (API)
• Focus on future technologies including incorporating the power of AI via LLMs, chatbots, etc.
• Collaborative innovation skills (see below)

Collaborative innovation

Transform collective creativity into corporate innovation. Innovation starts by challenging assumptions and looking beyond the obvious. We have an extensive background in both software technologies and dentistry, working with clients to fuse creativity and problem-solving with strategy. Prior to working in the dental world, we worked with companies such as Apple, Boeing, and General Motors to create innovative solutions to complex problems using custom software applications.

Seeing the unseen

Break out of routine thinking patterns and explore new, unconventional solutions to complex business problems. We can bring fresh eyes to your project, along with abstract thinking, seeing things from different perspectives, cross-pollinating ideas from other industries — all to work with you to unlock new possibilities and drive meaningful innovation. Let us help you look beyond the obvious and approach problems from new angles, break through conventional thinking, and spark fresh, actionable ideas for growth and transformation.

Nurturing ideas into concrete solutions

Great ideas often start as abstract concepts that need careful nurturing. Many innovative business leaders have expressed that ideas are the starting point—the real value is in the execution. We go beyond what typical consultants provide: we can also help your team implement solutions. We work effectively and efficiently with C-Suite executives, technical teams, and other parts of your organization to simplify abstract concepts and distill complex ideas into their core components, identifying what matters most, and then help guide your team from initial spark to a fully-formed strategy to implement the solution.

Ways we can work together

• License our (written or video) dental content for your systems via our API
• License our CMS and have us create a custom web site, web application, or web portal and host it for you. Explore an example of a dental insurance oral health site, built with Symbyos' dental content and software systems and incorporating additional third-party content and applications.
• Collaborative innovation (at any level, minimal to extended)