Quickly learn and easily use Matrix, a Web-based clinical 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.

At the same time, its infrastructure supports organizations with multiple locations through a sophisticated model that allows for a single company database, shared master tables across the organization, and rollup reporting (by state, district, region, company, or user defined groups of facilities) to efficiently manage your business. Whether you are a single home or one of the largest companies in the industry, Matrix is designed to meet your needs.

Full Integration with Financial Data

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.

Assessments and Events

Matrix has more than 70 assessment templates used across the industry based on the RAI process, Lippincott, Merck, Tabers, and other clinical resources. Matrix allows for corporate standardization of assessments and helps ensure consistent and detailed documentation. All templates can be customized meet your organization’s needs.

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 assessment and documentation templates to support a thorough and consistent evaluation of a resident change in status. Matrix provides more than 30 event templates based on TNA, NANDA, AMDA, and other clinical resources. Matrix allows for corporate standardization of assessments to help ensure consistent and detailed documentation. All templates can be customized to meet your organization's needs. Documentation is consolidated including the assessment, vital signs, facility-defined protocols, orders, and progress notes to simplify coordination of care and ensure proper follow-up, thus reducing potential litigation risks.

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.

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.

MDS

Data collected via other modules as noted above can share information to the MDS to facilitate efficiency and accuracy of coding. RAP Worksheets are created and display MDS answers as well as additional RAP guidelines to ensure full evaluation. The MDS and RAPs open in secondary windows to allow for full access to the rest of the record while completing them. After validation is complete, 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.

Care Planning

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 RAPs. The RAP library displays the triggered RAPs for guidance. User-Defined Templates allow you to build your care plan 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 as well for ongoing documentation.