High-Performance Drupal Platform

Technology

PHP, Drupal

Industry

Media & Entertainment

Project Type

NEWS Broadcasting

Country

United States

About The Project

Healthcare IT News is part of HIMSS Media, a B2B media group focused exclusively on healthcare and technology markets. HIMSS Media delivers news, analysis, and must-have information to an audience of senior healthcare and technology influencers.

The client came to us with issues handling large amounts of news, images, videos, and regional content on one website. They needed faster search, quick updates, better performance, and organized news categories. We built solutions like fast search filters, video integration, email alerts, and flexible content blocks. These solutions made the website faster, easier to manage, and better for users.

Key Project Deliverables

We developed custom solutions to improve speed, content management, and user experience across the website.

Fast Loading System

Implemented search index and facets to load large amounts of news and media faster without slowing the website.

Email Subscription Module

Integrated Marketo so users can subscribe to specific news categories and receive email alerts when new content is added.

Brightcove Video Integration

Built a custom module to connect Brightcove and let admins embed videos directly from the video cloud.

Custom News Filters

Created filters for categories and news types to help users quickly find stories that interest them.

Flexible Content Blocks

Developed different block layouts so admins can display various news lists and content sections across pages.

Regional News Management

Built a module that allows admins to manage news by region, and gives users the option to read news from their desired area.

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Major Project Challenges

The news and media industries always face the challenge of handling large volumes of data, images, and videos, which require better database management, processing, and data presentation. Also, HealthCare IT News provides news from different regions, so it will be challenging to handle all the news on a single website.

Process and handle the massive amount of data.
The user should be notified once any news is updated or added.
Needs to handle a large number of videos on the website, which should not affect the site’s performance.
Quick results on the news, which users want to show with a variety of categories and keywords.
The website should include multiple areas where the admin can display different news lists or static content.

Solutions & Impact

Our team has analyzed the requirements and developed solutions for each point of the challenge. Also, before implementing the solution on the website, we conducted comprehensive testing to ensure everything worked as intended.

Implemented Drupal search index and Facet on the website to provide faster search results as well as load the data quickly.
Developed a custom module to integrate the Marketo form API, which will get the registration form from Marketo and allow users to subscribe to the email notification.
Implemented the BrightCove video cloud solution on the website to embed the video directly from BrightCove to the website, which will save the bandwidth of the website.
Implemented the views filter on the website, which will allow users to search for or find our specific news quickly.
Created different types of block views on a website, which represent views on the website, so that the user can see the overview of each news item from one page.