Design and Enhance a Dynamic Healthcare Portal Site

National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH) is an academic hospital having over hundred years' history and large scale. There are existing problems in the NTUH portal site. It contains multi-system entrances and display, maintenance of numerous function linkages. In here, we design a new portal site to solve these problems. The single sign on service (SSOS) solves the multi-system entrance problem. For the function linkage problem, we design dynamic, hierarchical drop-down navigation menus to enlarge the browsing capacity for covering over 250 function links and two bulletins in one page. The XML formatted configuration files are designed to dynamically establish function linkages. The approach makes the linkage management easier. Moreover, we maintain configuration parameters, i.e., access control capabilities, linkage modes and multi-server redirections, as well as target control, in configuration files. All these features enhance NTUH portal site administration flexible and usage intuitive. In addition, the future works have been addressed clearly.