Carestream Dental selects GBGroup to capture accurate patient data

London,  14 April 2014

Matchcode will play a significant role in delivering exceptional customer care to dental practices in the UK

GBGroup, a global leader in Identity Intelligence, has announced that Carestream Dental, the worldwide provider of industry leading dental support, has selected GBGroup's market-leading Matchcode solution to capture accurate patient data, ensuring that its customers can provide a smooth registration process to all of their patients.

In the Dental industry, it is essential that dentists can rely on accurate, up-to-date customer contact databases. GBGroup's cloud platform delivers Matchcode to Carestream Dental which enables them to provide their customers with a quick and easy address look-up and contact data validation services. The increased efficiency delivered by GBGroup's software means that dental practices across the United Kingdom will have up-to-date, reliable contact details of patients in times of need.

Used by 70% of dental practitioners, Carestream Dental products play a significant role in delivering effective solutions to provide the highest possible care to patients. GBGroup's Matchcode solution will enhance these already leading solutions. 


David Green, Business Unit Director, GBGroup said: "We are proud to be working with Carestream Dental to provide a system which will provide an efficient and effective patient journey to dental practices across the UK.  Matchcode is delivered via a robust and reliable web service which ensures only accurate data is entered into patient systems and thus saves valuable time and money but can easily be extended to serve customers throughout the globe, uniquely with real-time address, email, mobile and landline data validation."


Barrie Heath, European Purchasing Commodity Manager, Carestream Health said: "We chose GBGroup because they provided the most comprehensive and cost-effective solution to the problem of validating and cleansing address and identity data. Integrating Matchcode has reaped great benefits for both our customers and for us."

About Matchcode

Matchcode is GBGroup's flagship Identity Registration product, which provides real-time global address, email, mobile and landline telephone validation and geo-coding for more than 240 territories worldwide, and has proven successful with multi-national organisations worldwide. The industry-leading global  customer registration solution is fully multi-lingual, and supports both Latin and non-Latin based languages as a cloud (SaaS) service or as a stand-alone application, and has access to premium 'expert' address data that is enhanced with street gazetteer information (AddressBase Premium), superior to that offered by the national postal authorities.


About GBGroup

The most profitable and successful organisations recognise the value of understanding the individual identity of their customers and employees. GBG combines this concept of identity with technology to create an environment of trust, so that organisations can employ people and connect, communicate and transact with consumers, safely and responsibly.

We call this Identity Intelligence.

GBGroup's Identity Intelligence solutions include:

Register & Verify  -  International software and services for quick and accurate customer registration; and the verification of identities of individuals & businesses remotely.

Cleanse & Engage - Innovative software and services which provide accurate and up-to-date identity information to deliver improved intelligent customer contact strategies.

Employ & Comply - Thorough background checks through online verification and authentication of individuals enabling organisations to safeguard, recruit and engage with confidence.

Trace & Investigate - Leading software and services which provide the most accurate and up-to-date picture of the UK's population, properties and businesses to quickly locate, investigate and contact the right individual, first time.


About Carrestream Dental

Since 2007, Carestream Dental has been a growing standalone company with strong earnings and a healthy cash flow. Providing industry-leading dental equipment such as imaging systems and practice management solutions for dental and oral health professionals across the globe, Carestream Dental's products are used by seven out of 10 practitioners to deliver exceptional patient care. For more information on dental equipment, or to contact a Carestream Dental representative, call 0800 169 9692 or visit us online at www.carestreamdental.co.uk.

For any further information, please contact:

Kei Hau, GBGroup
Email: marketing@gbgplc.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 7428 1253

Paul James, Bite Global
Email: paul.james@biteglobal.com
Tel: +44 (0)20 8834 3402

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