Directory App Starter · Industry version
Healthcare Provider Directory Template
A find-a-provider directory with specialties, insurance, and credentials as first-class data — generated into code you own.
Patients don't browse doctors; they search with constraints — this specialty, this insurance, taking new patients, near me. This starter generates a provider directory where those constraints are schema, not free text, so the search that decides whether a patient finds care actually works.
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- Code you own
- Vibe + Governed modes
01 · The problem
Why a generic Directory falls short
Provider search is filter-first, and the filters are medical. Specialty and subspecialty taxonomies, board certifications, hospital affiliations, languages spoken, telehealth availability — none of these exist in a generic business schema, and stuffing them into a description field means the one search patients run ('cardiologist who takes my insurance') returns noise.
Insurance acceptance is the make-or-break attribute, and it's a many-to-many relationship with plans, not a checkbox. Directories with stale or vague insurance data send patients to appointments that end at the front desk — and regulators have taken notice, with accuracy requirements now attached to payer-published directories.
Reviews also carry different weight in healthcare. Clinical outcomes can't be crowdsourced, but wait times, bedside manner, and front-desk experience can — and defamation risk is real. A provider directory needs stricter moderation defaults and a clear line between experience feedback and medical claims, which a generic review pipeline doesn't draw.
02 · Data model
The data model, adapted
Everything in the base Directory starter —
businessescategoriesreviewsreview_flagsclaimsowners— plus the entities this industry actually runs on:
| table | what it holds |
|---|---|
specialties | A structured medical taxonomy — specialty and subspecialty — so a search for a pediatric cardiologist doesn't depend on how a bio was worded. |
insurance_plans | Accepted plans per provider as a real many-to-many relation, the single attribute patients filter on most and trust least. |
credentials | Board certifications, licensure, education, and hospital affiliations, with dates — displayed for trust and verifiable at claim time. |
03 · Screens
Modules through the industry lens
Constraint-based provider search
01Search runs on structured facts: specialty, insurance plan, location radius, language, telehealth, and accepting-new-patients status. Every result already satisfies the patient's constraints, which is the entire job of a provider directory.
Verified-claim provider profiles
02Claims verify against practice email domains or license records before a provider controls a profile — a higher bar than a retail listing, because a hijacked doctor profile is a patient-safety problem, not a nuisance.
Experience-scoped review moderation
03Review prompts steer toward experience — scheduling, wait time, communication — and moderation defaults are strict, with clinical claims and privacy leaks held for human review. Trustworthy feedback without a defamation docket.
04 · In practice
Workflows it models
Patient finds in-network care
01A patient filters by specialty, plan, and distance, checks new-patient status, and reaches a profile with credentials and office details. The call they make is to a provider who takes their insurance — the failure mode the directory exists to prevent.
Practice claims and maintains its profiles
02A practice manager claims the group's providers, verifies once, then keeps insurance panels, locations, and new-patient status current across all of them — the maintenance loop that keeps directory accuracy from decaying.
Quarterly accuracy audit
03Unclaimed and stale profiles surface on a report, ranked by traffic. Outreach targets the high-traffic stale ones, and the timestamped audit trail documents your accuracy effort — increasingly the difference between a liability and an asset.
Provider Directory template — frequently asked questions
Can patients filter providers by insurance plan?
Yes — insurance acceptance is a structured relation between providers and plans, so filtering by plan returns only in-network results. Providers and practice managers update their own panels after claiming, which is how the data stays accurate.
How are provider credentials handled?
Credentials are structured records — certifications, licensure, education, affiliations, with dates — shown on profiles and checkable during claim verification. Because you own the schema, adding a verification-status field or an expiry alert is an edit.
Is review moderation stricter for a medical directory?
The defaults are. Prompts scope reviews to experience rather than clinical judgment, and flagged content — medical claims, privacy leaks, suspected retaliation — holds for human review before publishing. The rules are code, so your counsel's guidance becomes configuration.
Could a health system or payer run this internally?
Yes — the same schema serves a public find-a-doctor site or an internal network directory. Running it as owned code on your infrastructure fits healthcare's compliance posture better than a third-party listing platform; see the security page for details.
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