At Healiscope, we are committed to providing you with trustworthy, accessible, and accurate information to empower you on your health and wellness journey. We use a meticulously crafted Editorial Process to ensure we are giving you the best possible information.
Our Editorial Process: Our Core Principles
Healiscope’s Editorial Process is the foundation of all our content. How do we ensure that everything we publish meets our high standards?
Our content team creates and edits each piece of content based on the following 4 core principles:
- Building and Maintaining Trust: Health information can be found everywhere, but this information can sometimes be confusing, misleading, outdated, or inaccessible. We are here to change that.
We provide content that is trustworthy, accurate, evidence-based, clear, understandable, accessible, empathy-focused, and actionable.
In our content, we address holistic health and help you make the important connection between health and lifestyle. We know that everyone’s health journey is different, so we prioritize inclusivity and empathy. We are here to support everyone seeking better health, without judgment.
- Maintaining High Editorial Standards: You come to Healiscope for accurate health information, so it is our responsibility to set high editorial standards. Our news and educational content is unbiased, balanced, up-to-date, actionable, research-backed, honest, and comprehensive. Our content highlights individual perspectives with empathy, candor, and respect.
How do we ensure these standards?
- We Carefully Select Expert Writers and Contributors: We meticulously select expert writers and contributors in their fields. We evaluate our content creators for subject matter expertise and relevant life experience. We train them in research and sourcing, provide regular feedback, and ongoing coaching.
- Our Health Information is Reviewed for Medical Accuracy by Medical Experts: The Healiscope Medical Network consists of reputable healthcare professionals with extensive knowledge in various medical specialties. Our medical experts add value to our content with their clinical experience, research, and patient advocacy.
- We Thoroughly Vet All Brands We Collaborate with and Mention in Our Content: Our Brand and Content Integrity team researches the business practices of partner brands and compares their medical and health claims against current scientific evidence.
- Our Drug Information Content is Created by Skilled Medical Editors: Our consumer drug information content is created by a team of experts focused on answering your questions and who know how to present complex pharmaceutical information clearly.
- Our News Team Closely Monitors New Information: Our news content is created by experienced writers and reviewed by professional fact-checkers. Our news team delves deep into the latest medical research every day, so you are kept up-to-date on what’s happening in the world of health.
- All Content is Checked to Meet Our Standards: Before publication, each piece of content is meticulously checked by our editorial team. It is reviewed for clarity, accuracy, quality sourcing, and the use of inclusive and empathetic language.
- Prioritizing Accuracy, Empathy, and Inclusivity:
We want to make sure that everything we publish is accessible and understandable to our readers. Therefore, we rely on a proprietary style guide based on the Associated Press Stylebook. This guide ensures that our writers and editors focus on readability, clarity, empathy, inclusivity, real-life applicability, quality sourcing, and clear citations.
You will notice that our language is warm, friendly, yet bold and innovative. Beyond being accessible and transparent, we use conscious and respectful language that promotes inclusivity and compassion. We use empathetic language to tell non-judgmental stories, and we make conscious choices to avoid stigmas, stereotypes, and biases.
At Healiscope, conscious language is an ongoing commitment. We regularly interact with community advocates and research language trends within health communities. We choose our words carefully, striving to combat stigma and empower our readers.
As language evolves, we evolve with it. We also understand that health affects each of us differently, so we respect people’s choices of words when sharing their personal stories. Ultimately, we cannot be a true ally unless we put you at the center of everything we do. Our use of language reflects this view.
Continuous Monitoring and Updating of Content:
Health information is constantly changing. New research emerges, old ideas are disproven, and terminology becomes outdated.
At Healiscope, we continuously monitor and update our content to ensure that we are sharing the most up-to-date and accurate information possible. We have teams of editors and experts focused on identifying and updating inaccurate or unclear information.
Our Medical Integrity team tracks changes in standards of care, new clinical guidelines, drug approvals or recalls, and major practice recommendations. The team communicates this information to our editors and partners so that content can be updated to reflect the latest, most accurate, and most useful information.
You may see several dates on our content. Each of these corresponds to a different step in our editorial process:
- Date Written: The date the content was first written and published on our site.
- Medical Review Date: The date the content was reviewed by an expert on our Medical Network.
- Fact-Check Date: The date the content was verified by one of our professional fact-checkers.
- Update Date: The date the content was updated (correction of minor errors, addition of new information, replacement of images and sources, or any change made to improve the value of the content for the reader).
We perform content updates and re-reviews as a result of ongoing processes:
- Regular Audits: We conduct regular content audits to address changes in language and medical terminology and trends in health communities.
- Annual Brand Evaluation: We re-evaluate vetted brands annually and update all content referencing those brands to reflect any changes in the brand’s performance against our evaluation criteria.
- Timely Updates Every Day: Our news team monitors changes in developing events and publishes timely updates on the most important health news of the day.
- Immediate Response to Feedback: We invite our readers to provide feedback on our content and take immediate action to address potential issues. When a reader notifies us of a potential problem with our content (such as inaccurate, outdated, unclear, or conflicting information), we take immediate action. Our editorial and medical teams investigate the feedback, determine what corrections are needed, and republish the updated content.
Our Content Process, Created for You
At Healiscope, you are our priority. We strive to be an ally in your health and wellness journey. Our Content Process ensures that we can provide you with the most accurate, relevant, and accessible content possible.
We are working hard to continually improve, so please let us know if you think we can do better. If you have any questions or comments about the accuracy or usability of our content, or if you believe an article is out of date, you can easily contact us.
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