When the Minnesota Business Magazine announced its list of finalists for the 2015 Leaders in Health Care Awards we were thrilled to have been recognized in two different categories!

I am humbled to have been named a finalist in the healthcare champion category, but more importantly our team was recognized in the software and web application category. Along with the Yale School of Public Health and UnitedHealth Group, our team designed a web application with the lofty goal of decreasing preterm births in the United States. It’s that goal that pushed us to create an innovative and effective platform for expecting mothers—an award is just a nice reflection of the hard work our production team puts in on a daily basis for our clients.

A history of serving the healthcare community

While this recognition is specific to our recent work, Spyder Trap has been collaborating with healthcare partners since its founding in 2008. We’ve put in significant investment in making sure we can deliver our healthcare clients with the highest quality service. Every year we invest in becoming HiTRUST certified—a framework that allows us to provide trusted services for organizations with protected data, like personal health information. It’s a big investment that not a lot of agencies make, but we believe it’s worth it to provide our clients with the highest level of service possible.

We’re not content with keeping our healthcare expertise to ourselves. We’ve hosted our friends from HCMC, Optum & other healthcare leaders to discuss the future of digital health. We often partner with our neighbors at TreeHouse Health for events on innovation and healthcare entrepreneurship. It’s not enough for us to produce great websites, applications, and marketing strategies—we want to help the Minnesota healthcare community thrive.

Going beyond healthcare

We’re being recognized for our work with the healthcare industry, but we strive to provide the same level of service for every client and industry we work with. Our designers, strategists, and developers build on to industry best practices with their expertise and thirst for reaching new creative heights. Whether they’re building a local, Minneapolis ecommerce site or solving a software gap for a Fortune 500—Spyder Trappers engineer solutions with a balance of function and style.

As we continue towards the end of 2015, we’re going to continue advocating for the Minneapolis healthcare community while expanding our services to national and international partners. We’re also going to continue delivering high-performing solutions to our clients in every industry; providing their users with exceptional digital solutions whether they’re called customers, consumers, or patients. If those things continue to result in awards, we’ll certainly take them.