By Bob Brewin
The Military Health System operates many Web sites packed with useful information, but they had such drab interfaces and hard-to-navigate pages that true "jewels of information were hidden from our operational folks," Dr. S. Ward Casscells, assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs, said in an interview with Government Executive.
Casscells said he kicked off a redesign of the MHS Web site this October to make essential information more accessible to medical and nonmedical personnel and families, and to improve public knowledge of the system, an effort he characterized as "only halfway there."
To date, the repositioning of MHS' site includes a crisper look that owes a lot to commercial Web design, along with easier to navigate features accessible from a top-level series of buttons arranged under the MHS banner.
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