Multi-Site Management

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The dramatic increase in healthcare content has led to an explosion in the number of Websites — including public-facing, secure Intranet, and Extranet sites — and the ongoing management of multiple Websites is now a reality for most medium to large healthcare organizations. New sites going up daily include "micro-sites" for new service line launches; separate, localized Internet sites for geographic locations; and Extranets to support corporate relationships.

Organizations must find a balance between maintaining central control of major site aspects to ensure a consistent message is delivered and giving geographic locations, and services lines the freedom necessary to develop and manage their own Website content to best support their operational and marketing functions. Without a multi-site content management solution, conquering this challenge can be a monumental and expensive task.

Organizations who have adopted this type of solution report they are experiencing boosts in productivity, improved consistency in branding across sites, better quality of Web content and higher volumes of material they're able to publish — without increasing head count. In addition, organizations are able to reduce time to market, redirect staff resources to other critical business initiatives, and drop expenses by 50 percent or more.

VitalSite's Multi-Site Management component provides an effective means for overcoming the challenges of managing numerous Websites and generate significant benefits in a relatively short period of time. But of equal significance are the long-term implications — using VitalSite as a unified platform to sustain the growth of your Websites well into the future.

For System Administrators

• Manage many sites from one place
  VitalSite's many capabilities are designed to scale across large enterprises. Unlike many competitors, VitalSite's code is specifically engineered for this purpose.
• Share modules across multiple sites
  Each site can have any of VitalSite’s module offerings, and each can tweak it as they see fit. Yet you can still manage them all centrally or separately.
• Coordinate different types of sites
  Not only can you manage many sites within a single VitalSite installation, but you can also manage different types of sites. Some of our clients manage corporate sites, hospital sites, clinic sites, physician sites, hospice sites and many others - all from a single interface.

Overall System Features

• Easily search across sites
  VitalSite lets you define how searches work, letting you "roll up" searches or lock them down to only certain sites. For example, a search at your primary hospital site may include results from hundreds of affiliated clinics.
  
  No other healthcare-specific CMS on the market today has the capability out of the box.
• Not just Websites
  If you need an Intranet or Extranet to span across multiple organizational entities, VitalSite manages them all easily in one location.