EPG
Health Media, one of Europe's most popular health information portals for
healthcare professionals, has just re-launched its core EPG Online service.
EPG Health Media is the most subscribed-to
pan-European health website for doctors and health practitioners. Launching in
2000, it delivered drug data and medical information to professionals in the
medical sector. During its inception, the core of its service offering was a
software application – known simply as EPG – which had 5,000 pages of
free-to-access information.
EPG Health Media was the first ever
pan-European digital drug data provider and it has been officially approved by
the European Medical Association. It core service is now operating as EPG
Online, following the launch of its website in 2002. It now boasts over 110,000
pages of data and information and reaches over 320,000 doctors and physicians
across Europe. After reaching this impressive milestone of content, reach and
age, on the 10 October EPG Health Media re-launched a refreshed EPG Online.
“Although our service has grown over the past
10 years, one of the things that didn’t change is our website,” explains Chris
Cooper, the Managing Director of EPG Health Media. “Our site has grown to have
over 110,000 pages of content, which is more than the Encyclopaedia Britannica,
but our navigation hadn’t, so we knew we had to change it to make it easier for
doctors to engage with the content.”
“What we’ve done is taken all the content from
our original site and divided it into 50 disease topic ‘homepages’, so when a
physician visits they can pick their topic and look at content specific to
their area of expertise,” Cooper emphasises.
According to EPG Health Media, the new version
of the online service will act as a ‘content aggregator’, finding and
presenting a range of clinical and medical information within one area. Each of
the 50 health topic areas will feature all the latest in drug news, information
and guidelines, clinical trial results, disease knowledge, educational content
and journal abstracts. They will also bring together the latest multi-media
resources, social media discussions and smartphone apps.
EPG Health Media describes its modern and
fresh website as having an “intuitive navigational structure.” It has utilised
the ‘two clicks’ theory, meaning users are never more than two clicks away from
finding the information they require.
Following the launch, EPG Health Media is
expecting its number of users to increase. The company is also looking at
making the service compatible with the most up-to-date technology portals; in
2010 it commissioned testing of a beta version of EPG Mobile – a mobile and
cell phone friendly outlet which is due to launch in December 2011.
Although EPG Health Media is currently a
European service, there are also plans to expand its scope and it has planned a
2012 launch of EPG Asia – a version of EPG Online which will be tailored to
suit the emerging market of Asia.
With ambitious plans for the future and
boasting a client list including some of the world’s top pharmaceutical
companies – Bayer, Pfizer, Merck and Novartis to name just a few – there is no
doubt EPG Health Media will continue to be the premier online information
portal for healthcare professionals across Europe, and across the world too.
Abbie Smith
Business & Investment Opportunities
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