The European Medicines Agency's corporate website, ema.europa.eu, has been upgraded with a number of new features. These include:
- The creation of RSS feeds for individual medicines, enabling users to receive updates on medicines authorised via the Agency as they happen;
- Improvements to the What's new? page, including the ability to filter the entries by document and page type;
- The addition of a five-star rating system for many of the website's pages, allowing users to indicate how helpful they find the content;
- The ability to download searches of human and veterinary medicines into a data file.
Within the next few weeks, the Agency will also be publishing an online
glossary of technical and regulatory terminology. This glossary will enable
users to see clear definitions of the terms by hovering the cursor over words
on the website's pages.
The Agency welcomes feedback from its stakeholders, taking all comments
into account when developing its communication materials. Many of the features
in this website upgrade stem from comments received during the online survey
conducted in March 2011, together with comments received on an ongoing basis at
info@ema.europa.eu.
The Agency will be conducting further online surveys in the near future to
gauge the response to this upgrade and to identify opportunities for further
improvements to the website.