Vyne Dental announced a new integration agreement with Open Dental Software, a widely used open-source dental practice management system.
Under the agreement, which is now in effect, Vyne Dental will utilize Open Dental’s application programming interfaces (APIs) as supported, while continuing to collaborate with the Open Dental team on enhancements to support tighter system integration.
This development marks another significant milestone in Vyne Dental’s efforts to advance interoperability in the dental sector by providing practices with greater flexibility, reduced administrative burden, and improved access to real-time clinical and financial data.
“The Open Dental agreement reflects our long-term vision of building an interoperable, vendor-neutral dental ecosystem that empowers providers with choice and resilience,” said Vyne CEO Steve Roberts. “Our objective is clear: to make dental data as accessible, secure, and portable as it is in the broader healthcare system. With the adoption of open standards, practices can view complete treatment histories, improve claims submission, minimize administrative workload, and provide patients with greater transparency and control over their care.”
Empowering Practices with Open, Integrated Tools
Open data and interoperability are critical for dental providers navigating a rapidly evolving care and reimbursement landscape. Vyne Dental’s integration with Open Dental builds on its broader strategy to eliminate vendor lock-in, support multi-clearinghouse capabilities, and enable seamless data access across systems.
These capabilities are especially important in protecting dental practices from the kind of systemic failures exposed during the 2024 Change Healthcare outage. The urgency to modernize dental data exchange is further underscored by existing federal regulations—namely the 21st Century Cures Act and the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA)—which require providers to ensure patients have timely, secure access to their health records and prohibit information blocking.
For practices using Open Dental, the new integration with Vyne Dental enables more efficient workflows, faster claims submissions, improved decision-making through connected data, and the flexibility to incorporate additional tools and services without custom development work.
“There has been a great deal of noise and misinformation about what interoperability really means in dentistry,” said Vyne Dental Chief Product Officer Paul Bernard. “What truly matters is creating an environment where providers are not reliant on a single clearinghouse connection and allowing providers to choose the tools that work best for their practices and their patients. That is what makes this agreement with Open Dental so important—it is a concrete step toward solving a real and pressing problem in our industry.”
A Broader Commitment to Industry Collaboration
Vyne Dental’s announcement comes just ahead of the “Enhancing Interoperability in Dental Services” convening in Washington, D.C., on June 25, where leaders from across the dental and healthcare technology landscape will gather to address systemic challenges in data exchange. In addition to Bernard and Roberts, Vyne Chief Revenue Officer Nick Rodich and consultant Bryan Laskin, DDS—a nationally recognized leader in dental technology—will attend the convening to contribute their perspectives and reinforce their support for advancing national interoperability standards.
“The need for open data is not just a regulatory requirement, but rather a foundational strategy for modern dental care,” said Laskin. “We have the standards, we have the technology, and now we need collaboration. Agreements like this demonstrate how vendors can work together to create a future where information flows securely, patients are empowered, and practices are free to choose the solutions that best support their care.”
Industry stakeholders can access resources and learn more at www.vynedental.com.
About Vyne Dental
Vyne Dental provides end-to-end revenue acceleration by engaging practices, payers, and patients via vendor-neutral connectivity, claims and attachment management, and the facilitation of secure communications solutions. Vyne Dental is part of the Vyne® family, an industry leader in healthcare information exchange, revenue cycle management, and patient communication. Vyne Dental is helping to lead a paradigm shift in the dental industry toward real-time claims and payment resolution to improve provider and payer financial performance while fostering patient satisfaction and loyalty. The company has been named to the Inc. 5000 annual list of the nation’s most prestigious and fastest-growing private companies for 15 consecutive years. Learn more at vynedental.com.
