When three of Brussels' best hospitals join forces to create a hospital of international renown: the University Hospital of Brussels (H.U.B.).
The University Hospital of Brussels (H.U.B) is located in the heart of Brussels, on two sites in Laeken and Anderlecht. It was created from the merger of Institut Bordet, Hôpital Erasme and Hôpital des enfants Reine Fabiola (Huderf). With almost 1,500 beds, 1,000 doctors and 4,000 staff, it is the largest hospital in Belgium and is ranked among the best in the world.
It provides the best care in general services, with nearly 80 specialties at Erasme; covers all cancer pathologies at the Institut Jules Bordet; and is the only Belgian hospital dedicated to children and teenagers, with 40 specialties.
Your mission,
if you accept it…
At WebstanZ, we love (almost) impossible missions, such as an in-depth digital transformation.
- HUB : “The success of H.U.B depends first and foremost on our staff. Communication needs to flow naturally between the thousands of doctors, nurses and staff from both sites, who are not used to working together.”.
- Us : “Bringing together a single platform, simplifying, popularizing and digitizing, to achieve a single, shared identity, is one of our specialties.”.
How do we do it? By taking stock, providing structure, organizing, building a customized tool with a focus on content managers' and visitors' experiences, and optimizing SEO tools. With the intranet in our sights.
The Intranet, pillar of internal communication
From the outside, the intranet may not look like much. Yet we know it's key.
The new Intranet will gradually replace those of each entity, with personalized information. So that employees always feel a little at home. The same goes for the UX concepts tried and tested on the Erasme, Huderf and H.U.B. websites, which we wanted to reuse.
We felt it was important for every user to be able to add favorites to their profile to access important information. Just as we have paid close attention to the user experience of content contributors: this is one of the keys to the platform's success. !
From the outside, the intranet may not look like much. Yet we know it's key. The new Intranet should gradually replace those of each entity, with personalized information. So that employees always feel a little at home.
Present H.U.B in an integrated way, building on existing sites
Above all, we had to create a corporate site for H.U.B that reflected the 3 values and 3 missions of the institutions: excellence, innovation and accessibility. Care, research and teaching.
But the original sites weren't to be thrown away. It was up to us and the com teams to optimize and adapt them to current standards. We wanted to make the most of what had been developed for the H.U.B. and create new functionalities for Erasme and Huderf: a transversal and integrated user experience, a design system common to both sites, services, pathologies and contact information, and finally filters and search tools to find contact information. And let's not forget the appointment forms.
The key features
Drupal,
customizable toolbox
For this kind of mission, Drupal is ideal: a customizable, multi-language, multi-site toolbox that enables real economies of scale with its tools! Thanks to its architecture, which is ready to host third-party services such as repositories for departments and their secretariats, staff members and pathologies, Drupal is at the heart of the H.U.B.'s digital ecosystem.
The addition of the Domain Access module goes hand in hand with significant economies of scale. Not only for design and development, but also for security and evolutionary maintenance. With Domain Access, you can centralize content management from a single back office, then publish it on the site of your choice. All perfectly controlled and highly secure.
