The Cutting Edge of Health Care: Social Media

It takes more than a team of brilliant doctors and high-tech equipment to impress patients these days.

When making a decision about where to receive health care,  the average patient now turns to a not-so-surprising resource: social media.

According to a recent survey conducted by YouGov Healthcare, a hospital's activity and presence on social media sites greatly affects their image and credibility. The survey reported that the level of social media engagement is directly correlated with how "cutting edge" a patient perceives a hospital to be.

To learn more about the importance of social media for hospitals, read the full article here: Hospitals and Social Media - Staying on the Cutting Edge

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Search

We make it easy for patients who are searching on WhereismyDoctor.com to find you.  Patients can search for you under your specialty, treatments offered, city, state, and country. If you are a Dentist in Chicago, for example, a patient can easily find you when searching our database for dental implants in Chicago.

Doctors Dashboard

Once you are a member, we provide you with an online software system we call our “doctors dashboard.”  Don’t worry it may sound technical but we’ve made it quite easy to understand and navigate.  The “doctor’s dashboard” allows you to build your on-line profile, manage your patients who come from us, or upload your own patient database to manage everything from one location.  

Profile

With SEO (search engine optimization) rich content , your profile is what patients will see when they find you on WhereismyDoctor.com.  This is where you can upload photos, videos, your services, and showcase your staff.  Everything you want others to know about your practices is available for you to showcase here for all patients to see.

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Ask

Here is where you get to interact with our community members.  In your dashboard we supply you with a list of questions related to your specialty.  These health questions have been asked by our community members in our ASK question and answer forum.  Answering questions in this forum increases your online exposure and links back to your profile.  Patients will be able to contact you directly from your profile.

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Rate

Your patients can provide testimonials and rate your services based on simplified criteria- atmosphere, friendliness, and staff, among other categories.  Patients are more likely to contact a doctor who has been critiqued by other patients.  Testimonials can be written from your profile or you can upload testimonials from your dashboard.

Chat

Our chat feature provides you immediate interaction with potential patients.  With chat you can offer a patient an e-consult from the comforts of your desk. You can set up an appointment, answer their questions, and interact singlehandedly.

Featured on WhereismyDoctor.com pages

Depending on which membership you choose, you could be seen as a featured clinic in the following locations:

News RSS feeds for your related specialty: see example

Treatment Guides for your related specialty: see example

Press Releases

We write specific press releases drawing attention to your location and facility.  We distribute the press releases throughout WhereismyDoctor.com and on various other media sources. see example

Social Network Marketing:

We will promote your clinic through our various social media connections.

see example: WhereismyDoctor Facebook

see example: WhereismyDoctor -Youtube

see example: WhereismyDoctor-Twitter

Social Marketing Done Right

Did you pay a lot of money for a professional website and are realizing that just having a good looking website is not enough anymore?

Thanks to the revolution of social marketing like Facebook and Twitter it is crucial that you “Get Connected” as well. But how to do it and how to do it the right way are tough questions:

Does this sound like you?

So your clinic’s website is live, you’ve created your company profile, connected to family & friends on Facebook and registered a Twitter account where you follow over 100 people... why isn’t this bringing patients?

Online marketing using these sites requires time set aside each day to get your name out and keep it on top. Are you ready to tweet, blog, back-link, comment, add to wikis', seek out colleagues & past patients, chat with strangers via instant-messaging-video-link, create podcasts in response to online user-led questions, while simultaneously tracking your name across the Web and responding to reviews all while maintaining your office staff and seeing your patients. Sounds overwhelming!

So how can WhereismyDoctor.com help?

At WhereismyDoctor.com we don't simply put your information out there and say...ok, now you’re online. Your search engine optimized profile is listed in a unique map searchable database, promoted using advanced social marketing concepts and updated continually to ensure that you’re found and most importantly simplifying your daily work load by doing all the on line work for you.

Social Marketing has empowered patients; WhereismyDoctor.com empowers the doctors to treat those patients.