Trent Taylor
I am the Vice President of Software Development at MicroFour and have been with MicroFour since 1991. I have a passion for the presentation layer also known as the user interface. I am constantly looking for new ways to make life easier on the users of software I write. On the personal side, I am married to an amazing woman that puts up with the idiosyncrasies of a software developer. Together we have 5 amazing children. So there is never a dull moment around the house. We live on several acres and so when I am not working on computers, we are enjoying the property and working outside (when weather permits).
Worried About ICD-10?
Is ICD-10 Really Going to Happen? This isn’t the first time that we have all walked up to the plate only to have them call the game for a rain delay. Â But this time around it does feel like it is really going to happen. Â There is a lot of buzz all around the Internet, […]
Planning Ahead Pays Off!
With years of experience under our belt here at MicroFour regarding Meaningful Use and PQRS, this year we took a proactive approach with our users. Â Beginning on January 3, 2015, MicroFour had a dedicated team of specialists start calling and scheduling appointments to aide in the process of attesting for Meaningful Use and PQRS. As […]
Is Meaningful Use and PQRS Worth It?
Prior to the regulations that were imposed by the HITECH Act as part of ARRA (American Recovery and Reinvestment Act) in 2009, the first quarter of the year composed primarily of concerns related to taxes, but past that, providers were able to focus on the most important thing, their patients and building their practice.  Fast forward […]
Meaningful Use Stage 2 Public Health Deadline
While the final days of Meaningful Use attestation and PQRS reporting near, CMS has sent out an email regarding Stage 2. Â As it stands, Stage 2Â still requires a full year for reporting. Â But there is a high possibility that Stage 2 will be reduced to only 90 days for 2015. Â If so, the pressure will […]
The Dangers of Real-Time Anti-Virus on Servers
The Violation It doesn’t matter who you are, you or someone you know has been dramatically impacted by a computer virus.  It is a painful process to go through and moreover you feel violated, angry, and deflated when it happens to you.  Once this happens we vow never to let anything like this happen again, only for […]
Using NIST EHR-Randomizer to Send DIRECT SMIME
Direct SMIME can be a very complicated process if not done correctly. Â We have created a step-by-step process to meet Meaningful Use Stage 2. Â In the event that you would like to send to a 3rd party vendor for practicing purposes, a similar process will take place outside of the NIST environment which will require […]
MU Stage 2 Extended, What does this mean for you?
MU Stage 2 Timeline extended through 2016 As always, we want to keep our user base informed of what is going on with the Meaningful Use process and the ONC rules and regulations.  Today we confirmed that the official timeline of Stage 2 has been extended through 2016.  Providers will not even be able to start meeting […]
New Feature – Show All List Items as Buttons
As always, we are constantly trying to figure out ways to improve the end-user experience by providing more tools while reducing the number of clicks and optimizing the process.  This most recent innovation is no exception and can dramatically reduce clicks, scrolling, and make it easier to see more at once. The Background As software developers we are always […]
Tips and Tricks – Chart Navigation
Recently I was on the phone with one of our users and the conversation was geared around navigation and the amount of time that it took to go from screen to screen.  I was a bit confused since we have gone to great efforts to make sure that navigation was as fast as we could make […]
New Reports and Report Updates to X16 Release
This year PracticeStudio has received many new report features and enhancements as well as new reports. Our user base is great about giving us wonderful new suggestions to existing reports as well as ideas for new reports. And we take every single request into account in development. However, many times these get implemented but our […]
