Bridge - Patterson Imaging 

Patterson Imaging website:  www.pattersondental.com.  The bridge will only work with Patterson Imaging version 15 or newer.

To activate the bridge, in the Main Menu, click Setup, Program Links. Double click on Patterson Imaging in the list. Check the Enabled box, then verify the Path of file to open and Additional Properties.  Click OK. You will now have a button in your Chart module labeled 'PattersonImg'.

The Path of file to open can vary depending on where the .exe is stored on your computer.  We have also seen C:\Patterson Imaging\Shared Files\Imaging.exe.

The bridge matches patients based on SSN.  If SSN is not present, then it matches on FirstName, LastName, BirthDate.  If no patient is found matching those criteria, then it creates a new patient in Patterson Imaging.  Before version 12.2.6, the patient middle initial and preferred name were sent when bridging.  This was sometimes a problem because, if the middle initial or preferred name were later changed in EZ2000 Plus Dental, then Patterson would interpret this as a new patient the next time the bridge was used.  Patterson would then create a new patient.  So we no longer send this information.