Selecting the right web development company for your health care education project can be a daunting task.

On the one hand, some firms seem to have the right stuff technologically but lack experience in the health care education field. On the other hand, there are those with some health care background, but they don’t seem quite up to the task of delivering the cutting edge web technologies that you need.

NetHealth combines the best of both worlds. We have a deep level of experience delivering valuable websites to leading health care institutions like yours, combining the technical sophistication that will make your site extremely useful and engaging and providing you with the participant and data analysis tools that you need.

This combination gives us something unique -- a real mission-led passion and the capability to help you make a difference in the lives of people seeking your health care information. When we develop, launch, or manage a site that participants and users enjoy and benefit from, we feel good about doing our part to improve the lives of patients everywhere. That's what it's all about for us.

Begin with the End in Mind

It is obvious that we’re emotionally inspired by our work with leading medical institutions such as Case Western Reserve and the University of Pennsylvania. But our approach to any new project is highly rational. We begin with the end in mind. What are the goals of the project and how do you hope to apply statistical measures? Would you be satisfied with simply knowing the number of people who are interacting with your program from month to month? Or do you want to go deeper into usage patterns to assess which parts of the program are working better or referenced more than others?

NetHealth will provide expert guidance for identifying and establishing such metrics, developing effective programs that take advantage of the very latest in web technology. Working with other health care institutions, we have deployed an array of Web 2.0 services that participants have responded to enthusiastically. We've been successful in engaging participant and practitioner communities through wikis, blogs, online chat tools, and other community and network building services.

These ‘Web 2.0’ technologies render projects more relevant, providing participants an attractive option for collaborative learning focused directly on their needs in a timely and fulfilling manner. People return to our customers' sites again and again because they experience real benefit.

Of course, you'll want to spread the word about your website to as many people as possible and NetHealth will connect you with the world of potential participants. We are experts in ensuring your website is optimized for Internet search engines like Google and Yahoo. We'll make sure that you have the proper keywords in place so people searching for information on your core topics will be directed to you. We can also set up programs through Google Ad Words or facilitate link exchanges with other relevant sites to increase the number of people stopping by to visit you.

The bottom line to all of these technical tools is this: they improve the connection your organization has with participants and improve the odds that your program will truly have an impact, making a difference in people's lives.

Some of our most successful projects involved getting the basic health care information to the right people at the right time. We've built sites that are fully compliant with Section 508 of the Disabilities Act and the response we've received from disabled people has been truly amazing and encouraging. Many of the users are basically housebound but, by participating in an interactive site we've built, they now have the ability to break-out of their isolation and access information and assistance that is meaningfully improving their quality of life.

Now that's what is really revolutionary about the Internet and Web 2.0 -- the potential to bring you closer to your target audience and make a real difference.