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Reputation management is crucial to a health care professional's success

As a health care professional, your online reviews are crucial. One negative review from a patient, and you lose potential business. Ninety-two percent of consumers regularly or occasionally read online reviews (an increase from 88 percent in 2014), according to BrightLocal. Your online reputation is the new word-of-mouth. It’s important that you monitor your online reputation on health care review sites, while proactively reaching out to your patients to gain more positive reviews.

Here are three reasons why you – a health care professional – should care about your online reviews:

  1. Great reviews establish trust and credibility.

Your potential patients will feel confident choosing you as their doctor when they read positive reviews from your previous patients. Reviews offer valuable information from your patients and colleagues, like how much they enjoyed your bedside manner or how they had minimum wait time during their visit.

  1. Great reviews improve your SEO.

As positive reviews increase, your online reputation will organically improve and enhance your Google search results, ultimately driving more patients to pick up their phones and call you, your office, your hospital or your clinic. Work toward gaining positive reviews on a variety of different health care review websites, such as Healthgrades and RateMDs, as well as your own Facebook page.

  1. Great reviews outperform no reviews or negative reviews.

Since health care is a highly competitive industry and there are so many providers to choose from, you can’t afford to lose patients simply because another doctor had more positive reviews. Reviews play a big part in a potential patient’s decision-making process, so be sure you’re reaching out to your current patients for their feedback on review websites.

Reputation management software helps doctors gain more positive reviews by sending an email or text message to their patients after their appointments requesting feedback about their experience. Sign up for a free demonstration to see how the ReviewMaxer software works.

Written by: Rebecca McClure


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