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New Site for Comparing Health Websites

September 9th, 2005

Consumer Reports and Health Improvement Institute have launched a beta site for comparing consumer health websites: healthratings.org

Two things I find particularly impressive:
(1) The site provides strengths AND weaknesses for each site. For example, for WebMD, weaknesses mentioned include: "busy with distracting advertising; poor visual representation of pages."
(2) The site attempts to objective rank each website along 9 dimensions (e.g.identity, ease of use, design, coverage, etc). Maybe I'm just a sucker for harvey ball graphics.

By the way, the only hospital to make the top 20 is Mayo Clinic.

Is there a day coming when such a site would exist for hospital websites?

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Comment from: djchuang [Visitor] · http://www.djchuang.com

A website for hospital comparison? Brilliant idea! You could start it, and be the next dot-com notable!

09/10/05 @ 13:07

Comment from: Dan R. Friesland [Visitor] · http://www.hygeiagroup.com

I would be honored to even make the list.

02/22/06 @ 14:19

Comment from: Michael Barber [Visitor] · http://www.CyrusOnline.com

Although they are not "rating services" there are many organizations and research agencies that judge hospital websites and cite areas for improvement. Specifically, the Web Marketing Associations "Web Awards" is an annual competition with a healthcare category that many of the best hospital and provider websites are judged and receive very provoking feedback from a panel of judges. Additionally, research firms like Forrester Research and eMarketer provide wonderful resources for consumer-driven feedback regarding hospital and medical providers websites.

09/13/07 @ 13:45

Comment from: Raymond [Visitor] · http://citehealth.com/

I like the idea and the website is fairly easy to use. I do wish that they would review more than the top 20 or so websites in the field. The web is a big place.

03/20/08 @ 13:54

Comment from: william hall [Visitor] · http://www.wheretofindcare.com

Look at this great website for hospital comparison, and allows consumers to rate. www.wheretofindcare.com

07/29/08 @ 23:05

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OK,Thanks!!

09/17/08 @ 12:23

Comment from: Carlos Diez [Visitor] · http://www.health-insurance-buyer.com

This is a good idea to add to the list of reputation management sites out there, please keep us posted as we are always trying to refer insured healthcare members to the best hospitals.

05/14/10 @ 12:35