We want to empower Health Care Professionals to increase their office productivity, produce accurate and timely records, effectively manage information requirements, and improve patient service. To achieve these ends we have created a powerful set of development tools which we now offer for the benefit of our fellow Software Developers. Whether it be for our customers in the Healthcare industry or our peers in Software Development, we constantly strive to provide superior software and solutions, courteous and timely service, and continuous product research and development. Brett Taylor Company President
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MicroFour, Inc. has over fifteen years of success in development and deployment of Practice Management and Electronic Medical Records software. In our Our vision is to empower you, the health care professional, to increase office productivity, produce accurate and timely records, to effectively manage information requirements, and improve patient service.
We continually strive to stay on the forefront of technology capabilities, releasing and improving software products which incorporate advances in computers, software, and ideas. We believe we offer the best products and service with one of the best returns on your investment in the health care industry.
The culmination of our investment of capital, experience, and hard work is a complete and fully integrated practice management software suite supported by a staff of experienced and caring professionals.
Technical Support and Training are important factors in a successful installation. We provide thorough training nationwide, with prompt and efficient telephone support to our customers. Our services department is the best in the business. We electronically track every incoming call down to the minute, ensuring you fast and reliable answers and solutions. We also offer on-line training courses so that you can take full advantage of the latest features and functionality of our software, or to train additional staff within your clinic. We do this without sacrificing the vital personal relationships that are an important part of our customer service.
On-Going Development has always been an important part of MicroFour. As an early adopter of the Electronic Medical Record, we have worked with thousands of customers across the country to continually provide premium software products. Our software interface and operability is second to none. We use touch screens and tablet PC’s to make the requirements of recording notes intuitive, accurate, and blazingly fast for you, our customer.
Our research and development staffs develop and use the latest in tools and techniques to keep you running on the best Microsoft platforms. Much time and consideration is given to on-going product improvements. These improvements are driven by innovative ideas from our customers and our own staff. We also look to the industry and government requirements to keep current with the latest developments. Rest secure in the knowledge that our Quality Assurance department exceeds industry standards in product reliability and total run-time performance.
Application Framework
With the current trends in the healthcare software industry, and its customers demanding more obligatory functionality such as VPNs, PDAs, wireless applications, and outsized networks, MicroFour began a migration in March of 2002 towards the Visual Studio .NET framework.
Initially, the research included a sixty day training period on design patterns and n-tiered development concepts. Although the study proved interesting, it was overwhelming, and ultimately the conclusion was reached that it would be more cost effective to purchase the technology than try to develop an internal framework.
Three different commercial frameworks were sequentially purchased, all of which
failed at various levels to provide the required functionality.
In the end, only one choice remained: develop an application framework that would fulfill the demanding needs of today’s software industry. With this in mind, the MicroFour development team started the process of creating the framework. Because of the team’s experience with previous frameworks, it was easy to determine the features that were necessary and the programming roadblocks to avoid.
During our research we were exposed to many theories and techniques such as: design patterns, UML, O/R mapping, code generation, ACID, CRUD, etc… All seemed important and many of the concepts are used in the framework but not at the expense of efficiency
or usability. Additionally, most products only addressed specific portions of the puzzle leaving gaps that would still have to be addressed.
Upon the completion of the internal framework, and its actual use within our healthcare
offerings, it became apparent that the framework should be commercialized; hence, StrataFrame was born. Through the expense of great amounts of both energy and capital,
MicroFour has strived through three long years of development to provide a complete,
commercial framework to our peers in software development. Finally, a complete,
full-featured .NET application frameworks is available that is more cost effective
to purchase than create!
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