Healthcare review widgets
Where healthcare customers leave reviews
Patients research clinicians more carefully than almost any other purchase, and they do it on platforms most practices never look at. Reviews are attached to individual doctors rather than to the practice, which changes how you show them.
A group practice needs one source per clinician, and can put each one on that clinician’s own page.
| Platform | Who uses it | Worth your attention if |
|---|---|---|
| Healthgrades | US patients choosing a doctor | You are in the US — it is the most consulted of these |
| ZocDoc | Patients booking now | You take ZocDoc bookings |
| RateMDs | US and Canadian patients | You practise in either |
| WebMD | Patients arriving from symptom searches | You want reach beyond booking platforms |
| RealSelf | Cosmetic and elective patients | You do aesthetic work — reviews here are unusually detailed |
Which of these to actually bother with
Per-clinician is the thing to plan around. A practice page showing a combined feed reads oddly when reviews name individual doctors; a doctor’s own page showing their own reviews reads exactly right.
Be careful what you display. These platforms moderate lightly and reviews can contain clinical detail the patient volunteered. Read before you publish.
Why one platform is not enough on your own site
Your rating on the biggest platform is what search shows. Your website is where someone decides. Those are different moments, and the second is helped by breadth — reviews from three sources read as harder to fabricate than the same number from one.
One widget takes all of these plus 60-odd more, up to 100 sources, with tabs if you want visitors to filter. Browse all 71.
If you want it pre-configured
The dentists page comes set up with the sources that matter for this trade, and with the placement advice that goes with it.