Partner for Quality Care

The Oregon Health Care Quality Corporation wanted wanted a consumer-friendly website for health care quality scores.

We made finding a clinic’s quality score as easy as saying “Aaaaah.”

Partner for Quality Care

Accessible data is useful data

It can be challenging to communicate actionable health care ‘quality’ information to consumers. Our objective was to find a way to make Oregon hospital, clinic and patient experience quality scores easily understood by consumers, while also addressing the concerns of multiple stakeholder groups: providers, purchasers, insurers, consumer advocates, and other health care professionals.

Partner for Quality Care

A smart interface that starts a healthcare conversation

Through an iterative design and development process along with extensive user testing, we developed a straightforward and refined interface that emphasizes informational clarity. The resulting Partner for Quality Care websites has been recognized by peer organizations as one of the best, most consumer-friendly health care quality information sites in the nation.

Start2Farm

When the 2008 Farm Bill directed the USDA to help younger farmers and ranchers get the information they need to successfully start and stay in the business,

We connected beginning farmers and ranchers with a crop of useful resources

Start2Farm

Whether new or already farming, a library of helpful information awaits

For those looking to start farming and be successful in their first years, a one-stop reference for training and information is invaluable. We worked closely with USDA staffers to design and build a user-friendly clearinghouse that welcomes visitors to browse and find the training, financing, and technical assistance they need.

Start2Farm

Easy to search, easy to maintain

We built Start2Farm.gov around the open-source Drupal content management system, an emerging government standard. In addition to the intuitive front end, we developed an impressive set of technologies behind the scenes designed to make the content repository easy for USDA to manage.

Wisconsin Health Reports

When Wisconsin Collaborative for Health Care Quality asked Squishymedia to help design, build and market a new consumer-facing health care website,

We gave their health care quality information a friendly name and a face.

Wisconsin Health Reports

Translating complex data into useful health knowledge

Health care statistics can be challenging for consumers to understand, so we steered clear of a “just the facts” approach to data display, which often prevents folks from integrating useful knowledge into their decision-making processes.

Wisconsin Health Reports

Stories, not statistics

Squishymedia drew on insights from psychology and behavioral economics to create an approach that would appeal to mainstream audiences beyond the medical profession. By letting a cast of characters personally share their stories, visitors enjoy learning practical information that might otherwise feel dry and unapproachable, then they’re given the opportunity to engage with the information at a deeper level.


Oregon Cultural Trust

The Oregon Arts Commission and Oregon Cultural Trust needed to focus on arts and culture and not worry about the web,

So we built them beautiful sites that let their organizations sing.

Patient-Centered Primary Care Institute

Knowledge is power

The Institute helps medical practices transform into patient-centered primary homes, a process requiring training, technical assistance, collaboration, and finally certification. It’s all aimed at improving the quality and lowering the cost of health care—worthy goals. The site we planned, designed and built for the Institute is an attractive repository of tools, webinars, events, and news that brings all of the players together to share knowledge and resources.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA Foundation

To help The Blue Cross Blue Shield Foundation of Massachusetts take the lead in expanding access to health care for their vulnerable populations,

We gave their worthy website a new (open source) lease on life.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA Foundation

Change for the better

Their website is the nucleus of BCBS Foundation of Massachusetts’s efforts to reduce barriers to health care through grants, research and policy initiatives. Their old Sitecore site was frustrating to manage and update, and they also wanted to consolidate multiple sites into one. Squishymedia partnered with the foundation to migrate the site to Drupal 7, including upgrades in functionality, design and information architecture.

Blue Cross Blue Shield of MA Foundation

Improving user and admin experience

Prior to the Drupal 7 migration, we refined the site’s architecture, reorganized the navigation, designed a new approach to the browsing and display of their publication library, and tied-in their CRM, online grant applications and event listings. While we were at it, we refined the design, incorporated more photography and color, and optimized the site to work on all screen sizes—desktop to mobile.

Electronic Payments

To help NACHA promote Direct Deposit and Direct Payment to consumers, businesses, and financial institutions,

We gave electronic payments a brand new face.

Electronic Payments

Ask what electronic payments can do for you

People don’t always get excited about electronic payments, but maybe they should—over time, the savings in time and money really add up. NACHA wanted to more clearly and consistently communicate the benefits of Direct Deposit and Direct Payment through a redesign of their existing site, a rebranding of the site and product logos, and a new tone of voice.

Electronic Payments

Quality, not quantity

The project kicked off with the design of a suite of new logos which introduced a fresh new look and feel. We then refined and simplified the site structure, and the site’s content was rewritten and edited down. Through shorter, clearer and more action-oriented content and simplified delivery of information and resources the site now focuses on the benefits of Direct Deposit and Direct Payment. The resulting site has been met with industry-wide applause.

COMPASS

Making connections

COMPASS is dedicated to helping scientists connect themselves and their science to the wider world. Connection is communication, and the Drupal-based site we built for COMPASS is all about giving scientists the communication tools they need to bridge the worlds of science, journalism and policy.

COMPASS

Expandable and updatable

The website gives COMPASS the ability to manage their web communications with the scientific community—to post and promote updates, trainings, workshops, and blog posts. We also planned and built an administrative back-end that allows staff to track resources, outreach, event scheduling and research, and budgeting. Now they can spend less time tracking administrative details and more time focusing on their work.

Cognitive Atlas

To help the cognitive neuroscience community create a shared library of knowledge,

We built an interactive atlas for cognitive scientists.

Cognitive Atlas

Putting the Semantic Web to work

The situation called for a useful, compelling and easy-to-use collaboration application. We based our web-like tool on Semantic Web technologies, and the result is an elegant system that displays definitions and the conceptual relationships between terms in the lexicon. Not only can casual users browse the atlas as a reference tool—registered users can contribute to the atlas, similar to a wiki. They are able to build sophisticated patterns of conceptual relationships, all the better to illustrate theories and techniques central to cognitive neuroscience.

Cognitive Atlas

Finding a common language for abstract concepts

Cognitive scientists don’t always agree on precise definitions for abstract concepts, or how they relate to one another. The Cognitive Atlas is a knowledge-building project that helps scientists address these issues through collaboration.

Cognitive Atlas

A collaborative effort enriches scientific collaboration

Working with the University of Texas, UCLA, Carnegie Mellon and USC, Squishymedia collaborated with the research team to define requirements and functionality, then designed and built the application from the ground up. Both the web and mobile versions of Cognitive Atlas are proving extremely popular within the community, with thousands of visits per month and thousands of mobile app downloads.