{"id":35699,"date":"2020-05-12T13:53:13","date_gmt":"2020-05-12T18:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/?p=35699"},"modified":"2025-05-26T17:38:49","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T22:38:49","slug":"healthcare-website-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.crowdspring.com\/blog\/healthcare-website-design\/","title":{"rendered":"8 Proven Ways to Inspire Trust and Credibility with Your Healthcare Website"},"content":{"rendered":"

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If you’re in the healthcare industry, you know it’s important to cultivate trust.<\/p>\n

Health can be a very personal matter. Healthcare providers make life-and-death decisions for their patients. And, every patient makes themselves vulnerable (financially with their health insurance and physically with their medical team) with every interaction.<\/p>\n

The personal stakes can’t get any higher.<\/p>\n

So, building a foundation of competence, credibility, and trustworthiness is essential for every business in the healthcare industry.<\/p>\n

And, as the primary online ambassador for any healthcare business and a core part of your brand identity<\/a>, if your website fails to inspire trust, you will lose customers.<\/p>\n

Don’t take our word for this. Seventy-five percent of people judge the credibility of a business based on its website<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n

People may judge healthcare businesses even more harshly because the potential stakes are so high.<\/p>\n

Due to weak website design, don’t lose business – or, more importantly, the chance to help patients in need.<\/p>\n

Here are 8 tips for making your healthcare website design<\/a> more credible and trustworthy.<\/h2>\n

1. Keep your healthcare website patient-centric<\/h3>\n

Patients – people<\/em> – are the lifeblood of the healthcare industry.<\/p>\n

That’s why your website must be designed with your patients in mind.<\/p>\n

If patients or prospective patients can’t find what they need easily, then your website has failed in its sole purpose. And you’ve likely lost a customer.<\/p>\n

2. Avoid healthcare industry jargon<\/h3>\n

The healthcare industry is complex. And the language spoken among healthcare professionals is equally complex.<\/p>\n

But, on your website, it’s important to keep the language simple and easy for patients and prospective patients to understand.<\/p>\n

To make your website accessible, double-check all of your website copy from a layman’s perspective.<\/p>\n

Will the average patient understand what you’ve written? If not, revise your copy until it’s clear, easy to understand, and free of baffling industry terminology.<\/p>\n

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