Insights
Field notes from the operating room of dental practice.
Writing on ambient documentation, verified clinical knowledge bases, and POPIA-safe agentic AI — from a practising dentist and the team building the platform.
Economics of the chair
Around 90 minutes of clinical time back per dentist per day.
The saved-time argument for ambient documentation in dentistry, grounded in published time-in-motion data, chair economics, and what practising dentists actually spend more than two hours a day on.
6 min read
Company
Built in South Africa. Designed for global scale.
Why building an agentic dental platform inside a POPIA-first, HPCSA-governed jurisdiction is a global advantage — and how ProClinic’s architecture is designed to travel with regional partners from day one.
5 min read
Clinical governance
Grounded, not guessed.
Why every ProClinic clinical output is anchored to a clinician-verified knowledge base — and what that means for the dentist signing at the chair.
4 min read
Product
Ambient documentation in dental — why the chair is different from the consulting room
Dentistry has its own acoustic profile, its own vocabulary, and its own workflow constraints. Building an ambient scribe for the chair means designing for a two-handed clinician talking through a mask.
5 min read
Compliance
POPIA-safe agentic AI — a practical operating model for South African healthcare
Agentic AI is not incompatible with POPIA — but you cannot bolt compliance on after the fact. Here is how ProClinic bakes lawful basis, consent, purpose, and retention into every agent call.
7 min read