DenScore allows dental insurers to better serve their stakeholders.
DenScore's patient-centric approach can be used to strengthen the relationship between insurers and their providers.
DenScore's API enables insurers to offer an enhanced level of customer experience to enrollees.
DenScore shares new insight with large employers so they can help employees make better choices about their dental care.
DenScore is a B2B SAAS company that allows dental insurers, large employers and dental support organizations to better understand the relationship between dentists and their patients. Our proprietary solution, which was conceived by a team of dental providers and data scientists, applies machine learning to interpret dental claims data and patient feedback to create actionable enterprise level solutions.
Dr. Kyle Gernhofer – CEO
Dr. Gernhofer has been a dentist for 15 years, and he’s treated thousands of patients while working alongside many providers. While in private practice, Dr. Gernhofer met many patients who had been treated by previous clinicians, and he observed how dental providers vary significantly in terms of their delivery of dental treatment. Dr. Gernhofer left his private practice to create DenScore when he realized that he could help address this problem by using his patient care experience to build technology to ensure patients have access to higher quality dental care.
Dr. Gernhofer graduated from the University of Michigan School of Dentistry in 2005. After fulfilling his service as a Naval dental officer, Dr. Gernhofer treated the San Diego community for ten years at Mission Boulevard Dental Group. While in the Navy, he received the Navy and Marine Corps Commendation Medal (COMM) and Navy Achievement Medal (NAM) for his leadership and clinical performance while serving as a dental officer aboard the USS TORTUGA (LSD-46) and Marine Corps Recruiting Depot (MCRD) respectively. As a private practice dentist, Dr. Gernhofer was consistently recognized as one of San Diego’s top dentists by his patients and peers.
Charlie Hubbard
Chief Technology Officer
Charlie is DenScore’s lead data scientist and also responsible for designing, building and deploying DenScore’s technology for clients and strategic partners. He graduated from Iowa State University with an MS in Computer Engineering and specializes in creating enterprise-level machine learning products to extract actionable insights from big data. 
Melissa Cooper
User Experience Strategy and Design
Melissa’s expertise is in customer research, innovation and solution design. She describes herself as a problem solver who fosters goal-orientated design thinking to create products that customers love. Melissa’s career spans over 15 years in San Francisco, Sydney and Adelaide. She joined Eventbrite as their first user experience designer and built their first UX team. Melissa has also headed up design at Dwolla in the US and Product at Bluethumb in Australia.
James Armstead
Lead Developer
Kaitlyn Ouverson
User Experience Researcher
Kaitlyn is a PhD candidate at Iowa State University studying Human Computer Interaction. Her research interests and survey design expertise has enabled DenScore to design enterprise-ready patient satisfaction surveys for dental insurance companies.
Hailey Moritmore
Survey Specialist
Hailey has managed DenScore’s market research campaigns, collecting over 100,000 survey responses about patients’ dental experiences. She has extensive knowledge about consumer engagement platform solutions and experience working with early-stage tech startups and Fortune 500 companies.
Averi Baudler
Social Media and Web Design
Averi is a social media intern who handles DenScore’s social media accounts and overall online presence. She is a senior in journalism at Iowa State University in Ames, Iowa. Her past experience includes interning at the Meredith Corporation in Des Moines, Iowa and writing for multiple on-campus publications.
Dr. Amit Acharya
Marshfield Clinic Research Institute
Professional Advisor
Dr. Acharya is a dentist, computer scientist and the director of the Marshfield Clinic Research Institute. He is a renowned biomedical informatics researcher and leader in value-based care modeling who lectures around the world. Dr. Acharya also sits on the Dental Quality Alliance committee, which was established by the American Dental Association, to identify performance measures for oral health care.
Matthew Wiles
Corporate Litigation Attorney
Professional Advisor
Matthew Wiles is a partner for one of the most highly regarded law firms in the United States. He is a serial entrepreneur and serves as an advisor for multiple tech start-up companies. In addition to advising DenScore on regulatory/compliance issues, Matthew offers guidance on business strategy, financial matters and overall operations.
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