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By  Emily Olsen 01:39 pm August 5, 2021
Yelp will allow businesses to display information on their profiles about COVID-19 vaccination requirements and whether staff are vaccinated.  The review website and app announced Thursday that businesses can post whether customers must show proof of vaccination and whether staff are fully vaccinated. Users will also be able to filter businesses based on those vaccination policies. Yelp will help...
By  Jonah Comstock 02:40 pm April 27, 2018
The Yelp for doctors that consumers have been waiting for might just be Yelp itself, according to a new report from the Manhattan Institute released last week and presented today at Health Datapalooza in Washington, DC. The report was funded by the New York State Health Foundation. Researchers looked at a sample of 200-to-300 New York State hospitals, comparing their scores on Yelp with data on...
By  Jonah Comstock 04:43 pm August 3, 2017
Cloud-based healthcare services company PrescribeWellness is working with Coopharma, a Puerto Rican cooperative of community pharmacies. With PrescribeWellness’s offering, Coopharma will aim to increase medication adherence, patient loyalty and health. “This partnership benefits our member pharmacies and all of their patients,” Heriberto Ortiz Martinez, executive director of Coopharma, said in a...
By  Jeff Lagasse 02:26 pm July 27, 2017
More than 500,000 births occur each year in the state of California, but deciding where to get care can often be a difficult process for consumers. That’s where a new partnership between Yelp and the California Health Care Foundation comes in.   Thanks to the partnership, maternity care measures are now being displayed for the roughly 250 hospitals that deliver babies in the state. These measures...
By  Aditi Pai 11:08 am August 6, 2015
Crowdsourced business review website Yelp has partnered with non-profit newsroom ProPublica to add more healthcare statistics to Yelp's 25,000 medical treatment facility business pages. With this new offering, Yelp will provide customers access to information about hospitals, nursing homes, and dialysis clinics that could help them make more informed decisions about a hospital for a sick child or...
By  Neil Versel 08:59 am November 2, 2012
HealthTap, the online and mobile service that lets users ask health questions to physicians covering more than 100 medical specialties, is adding a two-faceted doctor rating system to help consumers make more informed choices. HealthTap has introduced a "competition" to bring more transparency to the process of selecting a physician. The company is taking votes from users about each physician...