Awarded: CONTENS customer German Heart Center in Munich elected best hospital website

For the fourth time Novartis is looking for outstanding online performances within the framework of the contest “Germany’s best hospital website”. The award for “Germany’s best hospital website 2006” went to the website of the German Heart Center in Munich (www.dhm.mhn.de). The German Heart Center achieved top grades in the evaluation categories design, handling, content, technology/functionality and legal status and emerged victorious during its first participation in the contest.

An independent jury of top-class experts chose the online performance of the German Heart Center in Munich from a total of 230 participants as Germany’s best hospital website. Decisive factors for the final result were comprehensible and objective medical information for patients, options for the download of documents, and helpful information on organizational processes in the hospital. Additionally, the user friendliness of the website, the attractiveness of the design, and the existence of accessible pages for handicapped people were taken into consideration as these factors have not become a matter of course yet.

The by now trilingual performance of the German Heart Center in Munich is based on the content management solution CONTENS since 2002. CONTENS partner icom-med, specialized in the marketing of hospitals and health care centers is responsible for the continued operation and further development of the GHC online offer.

About icom-med

15 years of marketing for the industrial economy – 5 years of specialization in the marketing of hospitals and health care centers.

For the specialization in medical marketing a team was formed and trained especially for this area in 2002. The team consisting of two marketing and media experts, three certificated designers, multimedia professionals and computer scientists is complemented by freelance consultants. The team of freelancers is comprised of medical scientists and editors, two science journalists, and a lawyer for legal certainty according to the Law on Advertising in the Health Care System, the Act Against Unfair Practices, statutory rules of conduct and laws regarding teleservices. It also includes translators for English, Arabic, Russian and Chinese, all specialized in medicine, two Arabic, one Chinese, and two Russian consultants for international communication, as well as a three-man team for press relations.

About CONTENS Software GmbH

CONTENS Software GmbH provides content management software (CMS) for companies with sophisticated online communication needs. Its line of products meets the demands of businesses from small online editors to international firms.

A strong network of experienced partners conceives innovative and customized CONTENS solutions and implements them according to individual demands. With the help of the CONTENS platform-independent CMS products businesses can quickly realize and edit extensive online projects without any prior programming knowledge.

Among the well-known businesses that use CONTENS content management products are Adecco, Brose, Concordia Insurance Group, Eli Lilly, HypoVereinsbank BKK, HVB Direkt, John Deere, the Swiss cantons of Aargau and Freiburg, Max-Planck Institutes, MVV Energie AG, the Oettinger Imex Group (among others “Davidoff”), Peri, Ratiopharm, RTL, Schwyzer Kantonalbank, Siemens TS, the City of Biel, and T-Mobile.