Meridios, Ltd, a provider of health registry applications, recently announced the release of its latest disease registry and quality reporting software, healthMATRIX 3.0. 

Meridios now integrates custom clinical logic with its healthMATRIX 3.0 reporting suite of products. The newest version of the company’s registry software includes an easy-to-use Web 3.0 interface for publishing data, content from national leaders, a business rules engine and enhanced patient communication features, as reported in the press release.

The company will do this through a new partnership with Clinical Content Consultants to provide Clinical Quality Improvement Collaborative (CQIC) through healthMATRIX 3.0. CQIC will allow reports to be delivered within healthMATRIX 3.0 and logic to be combined and sorted then updated automatically for enhanced flexibility.

Clinical knowledge, or content, is the information doctors use to make decisions, from diagnosis through treatment and long-term care, according to openclinical.org, a knowledge management Web site.   A patient registry is a surveillance system that collects and maintains structured records on the new cases of a specific disease or condition for a specified time period and population, according to medical-dictionary.thefreedictionary.com.

According to an article at sciencedaily.com, CQIC procedures – the term for the payer-hospital initiatives aimed at improving safety and quality of specific surgical procedures and clinical practices – have been shown to outpace the positive results of similar, national programs, as reported in the professional health care journal, Health Affairs, citing Blue Cross Blue Shield of Michigan and the University of Michigan Health System report on its experience with CQIC.

“Meridios clients have netted an estimated incentive payback of over $1 million in the 2010,” said Patrick Clark, Meridios CEO, in the press release.  He went on to say that in 2011, Meridios, Ltd successfully submitted physician quality reporting initiatives for 857 providers and electronic prescribing initiatives for 422 healthcare practitioners to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services.

According to Clark, healthMATRIX is enabling customers to receive a two times return on investment in less than one year after install.

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