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When inflation recently hit its highest year-over-year increase in more than 30 years, it showed what sikka.ai was already seeing in dental recall appointments. Dentists see patients more often in a year than physicians, on average, and are a primary line of healthcare contact…leading to explosive improvements in both diagnostic and economic indicators.” — CEO and Founder Vijay Sikka SAN JOSE, CA, USA, November 24, 2021 — The American Farm Bureau estimates that the prototypical Thanksgiving dinner costs 14% more this year than last, used cars continue to fly off lots, and dollar stores chains are being forced to revisit both their pricing strategies and even their names. Indeed, inflation is the word on everyone’s lips these days. Enter sikka.ai ’s Dental Inflation Indicator™, as discussed recently on CNBC’s “The Exchange” . “Dentists see patients more often in a year than physicians, on average, and are a primary line of healthcare contact with the population. This is leading to exp

sikka.ai's ONE API Wins 2022 Best in Health APIs Award

The Sikka ONE API wins a Best in Health APIs award, cementing an early leadership position as infrastructure as a service in the retail healthcare marketplace. Sikka ONE API is helping engineers & API professionals build the future of APIs and the API economy in the multi-trillion-dollar market for API-driven products and services.” — Jonathan Pasky, Executive Producer & Co-Founder of DevNetwork SAN JOSE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES, September 19, 2022 -- sikka.ai announces that their Sikka ONE API has won a 2022 API Award in the Best in Health APIs category. The 2022 API Awards celebrate the incredible technical innovation, adoption and reception in the API & Microservices industries and use by a global developer community. This award marks the third time in five years that the Sikka ONE API, which allows companies and developers to deploy applications to over 90% of the dental, veterinary, orthodontics, oral surgery, chiropractic and optometry industries, has won the

Practice Management System and Data Usage

My Practice Management System (PMS) company says I can only use them or their software partners to access the data. Is this legal? No! You are absolutely allowed to utilize software that isn't officially partnered with your PMS or Electronic Medical Record (EMR) company. You should question the motives of a PMS that is requiring exclusivity with them or pushing a fixed set of partnerships because they may be doing it due to financially driven incentives from those partners. Sikka.ai is almost 20 years old and built its Sikka Platform Utility and API before PMSs had APIs, which has allowed us provide more reliable and comprehensive access to you for the information inside your PMSs. Sikka.ai does not work exclusively with any PMS. This allows us to streamline the process of managing healthcare and communication, ensuring both providers and patients can benefit. Sikka.ai built its APIs and software before any PMS company had an API. Our Sikka Platform Utility connects with over 400