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Grand Rapids based Value Health Partners (VHP) is committed to creating greater value for patients and the community and is comprised of eight regional health care systems in Michigan. We were thrilled when they asked Elexicon to design and develop their new public facing consumer site along with a secure member site. The secure member portal enables users to work together on a variety of activities and would also require that access be limited to a defined subset of the users. Data security was a critical component to this group.

Challenges

Elexicon was presented with a few challenges on the VHP project. On the one hand the client would be managing their content internally so they needed a content management system (CMS) that was simple and easy to use yet offered all of the security and collaboration functionality necessary to meet their specific needs.

While on the other hand Elexicon needed to design a clean, sophisticated site that appealed to three diverse user communities: medical, legislative and the general public. Information needed to be delivered quickly and effectively without a lot of clutter. And, most importantly, the design needed to work with in the CMS.

Solution

Elexicon partnered with Blue Sphere, a Grand Rapids based software consulting firm, to create a Microsoft SharePoint site for both the internal and external audiences. Elexicon provided the project’s creative direction, design and CSS expertise and Blue Sphere developed the Windows SharePoint Services (WSS) environment.

The clean design was meant to appeal to a more broad range of audiences – physicians, governmental officials as well as the general public. The main Flash visual promotes the wide reach of the members throughout the state of Michigan. This animation can be updated with virtually any message that VHP wants to convey.

The site structure was designed to be flexible and can be maintained by the client using the easy to use user interface. Blue Sphere and Elexicon trained the content administrators in just a few sessions. VHP will be solely responsible for keeping their site up to date.

Visit http://www.valuehealthpartners.org to see more!

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