Overview

Services Summary

Meridian has created many applications for NSW Health and other clients including Justice Health, the University of Wollongong and Mater Health Group, the individual regions and other customers, over the past decade, the majority of which are still in operation today. One of Meridian's key strengths is in Health setting related application development and support using our IDME software.

Meridian provides comprehensive Health Care application development and support services. These services cover both conventional systems development and archetype modeling approaches using Meridian’s award winning Intelligent Data Management Engine (IDME) technology.

Using Archetype Modelling

Wherever appropriate Meridian will use its IDME because of the considerable benefits of user controlled development, much faster implementation, user maintainability, cradle to grave preservation of data integrity, ease of keeping the application in line with changing requirements and practices and powerful reporting capability.

Strength through Partnering

By partnering with ISG Technology and several other providers, Meridian is able to offer a complete range of strategic planning, application development and support services for any sized project. These services are provided by teams of experienced, knowledgeable and highly competent consultants.

Meridian and its partners employ proven application development methodologies and system building practices. In particular we favour and have had significant success with a prototyping approach which enables the customer to see what the end result looks like early in the development lifecycle. Using tools such as Microsoft’s Sketchflow or Serena’s Prototype Composer we are able to rapidly refine the user interface and ensure the end result meets our customer’s requirements.

The collective experience of our team of developers, gathered over this period, allows Meridian to add enormous value from the beginning of the development cycle, through to training, implementation and support.

Meridian in partnership with ISG offer a comprehensive Application Development Lifecycle Management Service. This is supported with a sophisticated range of tools including Serena's Mariner and Microsoft prototyping tool Scetch Up.

The partnership offers many advantages to our customers by boosting the number of highly experienced and high quality resources including capability in:

• Strategic planning
• Business process analysis and design
• Application Lifecycle Management
• Business Intelligence solutions
• .NET development
• Project managment
• Testing and evaluation
• Implementation
• Support

Application Lifcycle Management

Application lifecycle Management (ALM)

Meridian offers a full ALM process and automated tools to support the process and deliverables. Each process within the ALM is supported by top quality experienced consultants and developers provided by Meridian or one of its partners. The ALM consists of a set of high level processes as follows:

These processes are described in more detail in Systems Development.

Services Provided within ALM

Services Covered by the Application Lifecycle Management

Application Development

• Requirements Specification
• Business process analysis and documentation
• Systems Analysis and Specification Service
• Detailed and Technical Design
• Systems Development Services
• Systems Testing
• User Acceptance Testing
• Systems Integration
• Training
• Documentation
• Performance Tuning

Support

• Modification and Enhancement Service
• Service Level Support
• System Review

IDME and Clinixian Solutions

IDME and Clinixian based Development

Because the IDME or Clinixian involve archetype based modelling a different simpler development process as compared with conventional methods is used.

An outline of this approach is covered in IDME methodology in system development.