Matrix Decisions

Matrix International and Matrix Decisions have been commissioned to develop a web portal to support the delivery of a “patient safety university”, and a community of practice for the Partnership for Patients. The partnership is a national Medicare and Medicaid innovation driven vehicle to improve clinical practice.

College Measures recently released a new online tool to accompany a report from the American Institutes of Research called “The High Cost of Low Graduation Rates.” The report details the salaries and tax revenues lost when a student drops out of college, thereby forgoing higher earnings potential. The report got press coverage in the US in publications ranging from the Huffington Post to the US News & World Report. The tool is available here.

Matrix Decisions has been commissioned by the Ministry of Justice to develop a route map for the development of an offender level data warehouse and reporting solution to support commissioning, research and reduce costs.

Matrix Decisions has been commissioned by College Measures, on behalf of the Gates Foundation to deliver an analytical application to assess the performance of two year colleges in the US. This is due to be launched in the Fall of 2011.

Matrix Decisions has been commissioned by the global engineering company, Charter, to revitalise the database in the Health and Safety application which we have developed for them over the last three years. The reporting is now considerably more responsive than before and will help drive changes in Health and Safety practice.

Matrix Decisions has been commissioned to maintain and host the College Measures database and application for the College Measures joint venture, supported by the American Institutes for Research and Matrix Knowledge Group International. This is an annual contract which will ensure that this database, which draws information from numerous sources to assess performance of four and two year educational institutions in the US, is maintained in order to consistently deliver quality performance.

Andrew Beale was appointed as Managing Director of Matrix Decisions

Collegemeasures.org is an interactive website which evaluates the performance of four-year public and private colleges and universities in the United States.

Matrix has been commissioned by South Central Strategic Health Authority to develop an application to pick up health quality data that will be used for clinical auditing and contracting.

This case study provides an overview of the performance management software that Matrix developed on behalf of the UK’s National Offender Management System (NOMS). It describes some of the advantages of the system, such as faster turnaround of performance management reports, easier access to a wide range of performance data, an easy to use web interface for collecting performance data, and improved quality of the collected data.

Matrix Decisions has been commissioned by St Andrews Healthcare to increase the reporting capabilities of the mental health MIS application that has been implemented on their site. The project will also involve developing an extranet capability for NHS clients.

James Potter attended this CRC event on 15th June and participated in the networking session along with Environmental agency E.ON, Cutterspool, British Water and many universities. You can find out more about this event here.

James Potter co-wrote an article on sustainability and the NHS for the HSJ. You can read the article here.

Our Value for Money (VfM) tool for housing related support has now been launched.

Matrix has launched a new application for all 142 prisons as an extension to the existing NOMS. This system provides all prisons, Directors of Offender Management, and Central Government with a secure, comprehensive integrated way to assess operational and corporate performance, through improving the speed and flexibility of reporting. The system also makes available a range of new data and information sources for the prison services and reduces costs.

Andrew Beale was appointed Chief Operating Officer of Matrix Decisions starting on the 3rd May 2010.

We have completed more sales to local authorities this week who are looking to demonstrate their service performance, outcomes and to manage contracts better. read more »

Matrix Decisions exhibited the new CarbonHub tool at the Business and a Sustainable Environment Show. read more »

Cutting edge tool will save public and private companies significant £££’s! Decisions is completing its development of a Carbon tool for a large FTSE Plc so that it can fulfill its regulatory reporting needs, engage its team and save huge amounts. read more »

Local Authority VFM tool set saves 60-120 days effort per month! The recent sites are making a real difference, reporting huge production time savings, helping to identify efficiencies and improve outcomes. The return, for the low initial investment, is within the first quarter, for more details click here.

Matrix Knowledge Group and its work for the UK Home Office is featured in a Microsoft case study highlighting the value of our approach to hosting software on the web. Read article »