Healthcare Digital Marketing

Marketing for medical practices

Patients choose a practice under high stakes and low information, usually starting from a search box. The practices that grow are the ones that are findable and credible at the moment of that search. De Novo Digital builds that visibility, and we can show the receipts: our SEO engagement with a San Diego fertility practice produced 73% patient growth, documented in a published case study. We also built the practice's website and HubSpot system, so the whole patient pipeline runs as one.

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The number is published, not promised

A live SEO case study with Fertility Specialists Medical Group: 73% patient growth, built on the fundamentals this page describes. We also built the practice's website and HubSpot system, so the whole pipeline runs as one.

Case Study: From Visibility to Velocity
  • 73%New patient visits, year over year, in November

    Source: FSMG patient records,

Services

What we build for medical practices

SEO

Visibility for the searches patients run before they ever call a practice, in Google and in the AI engines they now ask first. This is the discipline behind the 73% patient growth in our published case study.

Web Design

A practice site that answers what patients actually ask, from conditions treated to what a first visit looks like, and renders it all as real HTML the AI engines can read.

HubSpot

Patient inquiry and follow-up systems built by a HubSpot Gold Solutions Partner, so the people your visibility brings in get a response while the decision is still live.

Brand Identity

Positioning for practices in crowded specialties, built from what is true about your clinicians and outcomes. Patients comparing three practices should be able to say why yours is different.

Content Marketing

Patient-facing writing that takes clinical accuracy seriously and still reads like a human wrote it. Substantive enough for an AI engine to cite when patients ask it questions.

Paid Media

Search, social, programmatic, and OTT for practices where demand is searched, with privacy treated as a design constraint and reporting your administrator can read.

FAQ

Questions, answered straight

Do you only work with medical practices?

No. Multifamily real estate is our deepest vertical, and every industry page we publish says so. The overlap is real, though: renters and patients both make high-stakes choices from search results and whatever an AI engine tells them, long before any human conversation. The discipline we built marketing apartments to skeptical renters is the discipline behind the 73% patient growth in our fertility case study. Different vertical, same standard of proof.

Where does the 73% patient growth number come from?

From our SEO engagement with the fertility practice in the case study above, documented in From Visibility to Velocity. It is a measured result from a named client willing to put their name on it, not a composite or an industry benchmark. We publish the work behind our numbers because we expect you to be skeptical of agency math; we are too. The case study walks through what was actually done, so you can judge whether the approach fits your practice instead of taking a percentage on faith. What we will not do is promise you the same number, because your specialty, market, and starting point are not theirs, and a guarantee built on someone else's result is a sales tactic, not a forecast.

How do you handle patient privacy in marketing?

As a design constraint from day one, not a checkbox at the end. Patient data does not feed ad targeting, and tracking on patient-facing pages gets scrutinized before anything ships. Copy never trades on identifiable patient stories without documented consent. Regulators have made clear in recent years that web trackers on health pages are a live liability, so we treat every pixel and script as something that has to justify itself. Your compliance counsel has final say, and we build the review into the process so it happens before launch rather than after a problem. If a tactic only works by being careless with patient data, we do not run it, whatever it converts at.

Our specialty is complicated. Will you actually understand it?

Diagnosis comes first, and that includes the clinical reality of what you do. For the fertility practice in our case study, that meant understanding how patients research fertility care: long timelines and heavy reading, with enormous emotional weight on every search. A patient six months into that research can spot shallow content instantly, and so can the AI engines deciding what to cite. So we do the homework, your clinicians review for accuracy, and nothing publishes that misrepresents the medicine. What we bring is the marketing judgment; what we never do is pretend the marketing matters more than the care.

How long until a practice sees patient growth?

Search visibility compounds over months, and anyone quoting a faster date without seeing your numbers is guessing. The fertility engagement built its results on fundamentals that took time to establish and then kept paying, which is the shape of every honest SEO outcome we have seen. We set a measurement plan in the first phase, tied to patient inquiries rather than traffic charts, so you can see the line moving early and know which work moved it. If it is not moving, the report says so in plain language, along with what we are changing and why we expect the change to work.

What does this cost?

Engagements start around $3,000 per month, and scope is set after diagnosis. We price the work, not the hours, and you see exactly what the number covers before you sign. A single project, a website build or an SEO foundation, gets scoped the same way: fixed number, named deliverables, no open-ended billing. If the honest answer after diagnosis is that you need less than you thought, you will hear that too.

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