Quality assurance

The maintainers of the network are endeavoring to assure the quality of the portal especially through the following measures:

• Every three months the participants receive an email newsletter containing notifications concerning innovations within the portal. Apart from informative purposes this newsletter also serves to make sure that the provided email addresses are valid.
   
• The addresses of the participants' websites, if provided, are checked twice a year.
   
• In case important information (like e.g. the photo) is missing from the profile, the participant will receive a reminder message by email several times a year. If needed be, the entry will be deleted.
   
• Regular benchmarking with respect to comparable listings is carried out, from which conclusions for further technical and functional development can be drawn.

Access statistics

Functionality

• independent entering and updating
• profiles with photo and description
• browsing by name, location and keyword
• overviews of locations and photos
• email feedback on entry
• list of treatment providers including many filtering functions
• separate page for the therapist profile
• mapping out the location of your practice on the (city) map (Google)
• searching your website by keyword (Google)
• your business card for Outlook
• your profile page for mobile phone or PDA
• recommendation email (tell a friend)
• your website as front page
• internal information
  • date of admittance
  • number of networks
  • number of profile accesses
  • evaluation
• statistics about treatment provider and entries
• security measures against misusage
• use of sitemaps for registering with a search engine