Dental app startup drama: Two attack websites and a lawsuit A dental app entrepreneur and his former business consultant ended up in a playground war of character smears conducted via attack websites in each other’s names – and one even sent an associate with a warning to the other’s home where his wife and newborn child were present. Dr Andrew Guise won £25,000 in damages for …
My partner worked in a quality assurance role for healthcare professionals, and in their experience, the professional bodies require CPD, but it is the professionals who have to record the details. Obviously the professional body would have a record of any CPD it provided, but there's a lot that is provided by employers, commissioners and third party providers.
Most healthcare professionals have so much clinically important stuff to attend to that maintaining CPD records can be a real pain, particularly for small practices or sole practitioners, so I can see the logic for the proposed app (even if the business model for the app developer is suspect).
It's never been intended to be suspect - it's simply to ask users what they want to learn or need in order to progress in their careers and, with their explicit permission, to then suggest to educators what they should be producing in order to meet that demand.
The intention is to help make CPD more relevant and form part of a career development strategy rather than merely a box-ticking exercise for the sake of the regulator.
The thing is, if your professional body does such an app then they also provide the information to the regulators about who hasn't got the requisite number of points (say 2 short) within the required period, whereas otherwise you can self certify that you've gotten the additional 2 points by reading the industry magazines spammed to you. (allowable under our cpd rules)
For this reason, it's generally preferred to keep the records in paper in our industry so the regulator only gets them if they ask us for them.
In the end the dentist won and managed to extract cash from Mr Shah's wallet (dentists are good at that) without anaesthetic which I imagine will cause him considerable pain. Never screw with a dentist as they have ways, see Marathon Man (Laurence Olivier) and Little Shop Of Horrors (Steve Martin).
You have a talent for causing things pain
Son, be a dentist!
People will pay you to be inhumane
As consumers are reliant on the tech he will change the terms and conditions to include payment for basic services and allow himself to use your personal data as freely as he likes...
So, he's going to do business just like Google and any other "free" site on the web, then? TANSTAAFL!
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