You’re Being Rated – Like It Or Not

Tuesday, July 10, 2012
One in six medical practices has an online rating. Surprised? A recent study in The Journal of Medical Internet Research – A Changing Landscape of Physician Quality Reporting: Analysis of Patients' Online Ratings of Their Physicians Over a 5-Year Period – noted that the "number of individual physicians who had at least one online rating grew...from 2,475 physicians in January 2005 to 112,024 by January 2010." Even though many providers are uncomfortable with this fact (see Growth of Doctor Rating Websites Prompts Worry Among Physicians), the message should be clear. Online provider ratings are . . .