Matrix

The fully-integrated Web-based clinical and financial enterprise software system for eldercare.

Quickly learn and easily use Matrix^®, a Web-based clinical EHR and financial software system designed to ease the burden on your staff, to manage daily resident care and business operations. Matrix is designed to handle the functional, clinical, and billing needs that all eldercare organizations expect from a modern software application. Matrix is completely portable via wireless access enabling staff to do documentation at the point of care using workstations on wheels.

Full Integration with Financial Management

Clinical and financial users share one point of data entry for all census and resident demographic information. This structure results in consistent and accurate records that only need to be edited once if changes are necessary. Resident Messaging within the system facilitates communication, alerting the appropriate parties to updates and changes that have occurred in the system. Medicare A and Medicaid RUGS information also flows seamlessly to the financial application, ensuring accurate payer billing.

Resident Messages

With its integrated Resident Messaging, Matrix provides your clinical staff the ability to stay on top of changes in resident conditions across the facility or unit by providing an at-a-glance view of resident activity, such as census, events (incidents), physician orders, medication safety alerts, documents/results received, reminder notices (certifications, event/assessment time limits, physician visits) and other alerts based on user-defined parameters such as vitals, intakes and outputs.

Observations and Events

Matrix has more than 100 interdisciplinary observation and event templates used across the industry based on the RAI process, TNA, AMDA and NANDA and other clinical resources. Matrix allows for corporate standardization of forms and helps ensure consistent and detailed documentation. All templates can be customized to meet your organization's needs and MDS linked questions can easily be shared with the MDS. Events are occurrences that reflect a change in resident status and thus may require a change in the resident plan of care. They may also require additional facility follow-up such as creating an incident report. Events are not incident reports, but rather focused documentation templates to support a thorough and consistent evaluation of a resident change in status. Documentation is integrated including the documentation details, vital signs, facility-defined protocols, orders, and progress notes to simplify coordination of care and ensure proper follow-up, thus reducing potential litigation risks. Capitalizing on efficiencies through this integration means a reduction in duplicate charting. Both observations and events open in secondary windows to allow for full access to the rest of the record while completing them.

Physician & Nursing Orders

Matrix's sophisticated physician orders system allows physicians and nurse practitioners to prescribe orders online – using the resident's specific formulary to ensure reimbursement – and has safety alerts to help reduce errors. It automatically sends the order requisition to the pharmacy, radiology, and laboratory to help mitigate the risk for transcription and legibility errors. Nursing Orders, Standing Orders and other protocols also help support the resident care process.

Matrix eMAR

Matrix eMAR provides the capability to electronically document medications and treatments, as they are administered, while ensuring the accuracy and safety of the dosage and frequency of all resident medications. Other resident care tasks, such as nursing orders and care plan approaches, can also be documented through this system. Matrix eMAR works in conjunction with Matrix Orders, with access to a drug library and real-time updates for new, discontinued, or changed orders.

Point of Care

Matrix Point of Care can be accessed on a number of portable devices, such as tablets, kiosk PCs, and more. CNAs and other users can access resident care needs and assignment information, as well as complete documentation on MDS supporting data and vital signs, intakes, and outputs. Real-time integration with Matrix coordinates the scheduling of MDS required-charting and resident alerts for vitals, intakes and outputs that are out of range. This integration automatically updates the resident record with vitals documentation and provides supporting data for MDS completion integrated from within the assessment.

MDS and Care Planning

Data collected via other modules as noted above can share information to the MDS to facilitate efficiency and accuracy of coding. CAA Worksheets are created and display MDS answers as well as additional CAA guidelines to ensure full evaluation. The MDS and CAAs open in secondary windows to allow for full access to the rest of the record while completing them. After validation and finalization, Matrix efficiently transmits MDS data to the state and accepts the status and validation report, tied back to the specific MDS for easy follow-up and monitoring. Matrix provides libraries as well as user-defined templates to guide easy care plan creation. Care Plan libraries can be deactivated and/or customized to suit your needs, including Nursing Diagnosis, Body System, MDS, and CAAs. The CAA library displays the triggered CAAs for guidance. User-Defined Templates allow you to build your custom care plans from scratch and/or mix and match from the libraries to customize. Build at corporate and share to facilities and/or allow facilities to build their own. Care plan approaches can also be shared to flow sheets or eMAR as well for ongoing documentation.

Dashboard Monitors

Monitor your company's performance with Matrix Enterprise reporting. Set your own thresholds and view clinical dashboards and leaderboards for your single facility or across multiple facilities. Each user has up to six dashboard and six leaderboard options and can monitor different items on census/occupancy, MDS compliance and Event occurrences. Enterprise reports allow you to configure your own parameters, report scheduling and select from HTML, Excel and PDF formats. These reports can be your own personal reports or shared publicly across the company.