Citizens Help Design Mobile-first Website for Oregon State Agency
17 Oktober 2013 - 1:00PM
Business Wire
Oregon Medical Board improves customer access
to information and services with streamlined content and
mobile-first design
The Oregon Medical Board is launching its newly redesigned
website at http://www.oregon.gov/omb, making it easier to interact
with the board online. The new site gives citizens, doctors, and
other medical providers access to important information by
providing streamlined content and a mobile-first design.
To ensure readability, the agency simplified the website
content, reducing the total number of webpages by 50 percent. Two
rounds of card-sorting studies conducted with citizens informed a
simplified navigation, and two rounds of in-person usability
studies with Oregonians helped make the design more functional and
relevant for visitors. The new website works with ease on any
device, including smart phones and tablets.
“The previous website no longer adequately served Oregonians.
This new website provides easier access to information, helping to
achieve our mission to protect the health, safety and wellbeing of
Oregon citizens by regulating the practice of medicine in a manner
that promotes access to quality care,” explains Medical Board
Executive Director Kathleen Haley. “This entire project took about
14 weeks to complete. We held our team to this aggressive timeline
to ensure the new website was ready before our biennial renewal
cycle when approximately 17,000 physicians, physician assistants,
and acupuncturists renew their licenses with us online.”
The website also includes information on license eligibility and
application requirements, filing a complaint and topics of interest
such as continuing education requirements and license renewals.
The Medical Board website is leading the way for other Oregon
agencies to take on similar website redesign projects. Design
principles and lessons learned from their project will be used for
other agency website redesign projects. The website was developed
at no cost through Oregon’s E-Government Program with the
assistance of NICUSA, Inc. (NASDAQ: EGOV) who is under contract to
provide services.
About the Oregon E-Government Program
Enterprise Technology Services’ E-Government Program was
established through Governor’s Office Executive Order in 2001 and
is administered by the Department of Administrative Services. The
Oregon Legislature further supports the Program by enacting
legislation in 2011 that established an Electronic Portal Advisory
Board to advance the effectiveness and delivery of new online
services to the public. The Program works with Oregon government
organizations to enable them to conduct state business online and
improve public access to government information.
http://www.oregon.gov/das/ets/egov
About NIC
NIC Inc. (NASDAQ: EGOV) is the nation’s leading provider of
official government websites, online services, and secure payment
processing solutions. The company’s innovative eGovernment services
help reduce costs and increase efficiencies for government
agencies, citizens and businesses across the country. The NIC
family of companies provides eGovernment solutions for more than
3,500 federal, state, and local agencies in the United States.
Additional information is available at http://www.egov.com.
Oregon Information Division of NICUSA, Inc.Suzanne Jorgensen,
503-967-5519sjorgensen@egov.com
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