sikka.ai Presents Insightful Newsletter #4: New, Free State Rankings

July 9, 2021 Leave a comment

“Insightful” Newsletter #4, July 2021

In honor of the United States’ Independence Day, we have added rankings for all 50 states based on average scores from our proprietary Sikka Success Report™ to the Industry Trends page of our website. What’s more, we have them for both the dental and animal health industries!

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While Vermont leads the way in the dental realm…

…Delaware is top dog in animal health (very punny, we know):

In fact, with Delaware ranking 3rd in dentistry, too, it’s clearly the most successful state across the two leading retail healthcare verticals over the past month.

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Animal Health Workers Need a Break! and Other Data Insights from Sikka

June 2, 2021 Leave a comment

“Insightful” Newsletter #3, June 2021

Will veterinarians get a summer break this year? Owing to the explosive growth in pet ownership starting during the initial lockdowns over a year ago, many practices have been feeling the pressure of significantly increased visits and production. This is readily apparent in this chart from our Industry Trends portal, which contains averages of practices across all 50 U.S. states.

With AAA estimating 37 million Americans traveling for Memorial Day weekend, veterinary visits may decline for the next two weeks. This could be a blessing in disguise, providing a much needed break for overworked veterinarians and their team members, who have been pushing to keep up with pet patient demand. We will continue to monitor the “summer shift” and report back after the July 4th holiday weekend. 

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Good Signs Abound: “Insightful” Newsletter #2, May 2021

May 5, 2021 Leave a comment

“Insightful” Newsletter #2, May 2021

For this month’s installment of Insightful, we’re taking a look at how dental production for the first four months of 2021 compares to the same period for 2019 – before we could even have imagined the pandemic.

From Sikka’s Industry Trends page, here’s production across the entire United States over the past three calendar years:

2021 is the green line, while 2019 is the yellow line. Look at just how closely they’re tracking over the past month and a half. The lines are almost on top of each other for the most recent week! (Obviously, 2020 was far different.)

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Introducing Sikka Insights’ Data Newsletter, “Insightful”

April 7, 2021 Leave a comment

“Insightful” Newsletter #1, April 2021

On the first Wednesday of each month, we’ll send you this short newsletter highlighting just a bit of what can be found on our Industry Trends platform.

COVID Trends

While the U.S. remains locked in a race between vaccinations and variants, the difference between today and one year ago today is stark. In the dental industry, there is no clearer numeric accounting of this than in the year-over-year change, just updated yesterday, in various categories of procedures performed. This is because last year’s comparison week was the start of the Covid shutdown, and practices have largely recovered, as the two charts in this email show (click them to see larger versions).

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Sikka Software announces new service empowering retail healthcare to rebound from the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic

June 3, 2020 Leave a comment

Sikka Insights delivers state- and county-level insight and analytics to support the rebound in the dental, orthodontic, chiropractic, optometry and veterinary industries

Santa Clara, CA – June 3, 2020 – Sikka Software, a market leader in advancing retail healthcare connectivity, applications and insights, today announced the launch of Sikka Insights. This new analytics service encompasses the retail healthcare ecosystem of practices, manufacturers, distributors, financial institutions and service providers.

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