HealthgradesvsAAmwell

Amwell: Telehealth platform connecting patients with providers

Provider search and ratings platform for patients
As of 30 August 2026, Healthgrades is free to use. Healthgrades is a healthcare marketplace where patients can search for doctors, dentists, and specialists, read reviews, and book appointments online. Softwr lists it under Healthcare. Healthgrades is made by Healthgrades Inc, launched in 1998, available on Web, iOS, Android.
Overview
Healthgrades is a healthcare marketplace where patients can search for doctors, dentists, and specialists, read reviews, and book appointments online.
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Pricing
Taken from the vendor's own pricing page. Prices move, so check before you buy.
Patient
Free
Capabilities
Provider Search
Reviews and Ratings
Appointment Booking
Provider Profiles
Insurance Verification
Practice management systems
Integration with Practice management systems
HIPAA
HIPAA security feature
Cloud deployment
Supports cloud deployment
Web support
Available on web
Mobile support
Available on mobile
Behind it
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Leading electronic health records system for healthcare organizations
Health information technology solutions for healthcare organizations
Supplement dispensing for practitioners, free to use because it earns on the products
Cloud medical image exchange and vendor neutral archive, now part of Intelerad
Employer purchased mental health benefit with a curated provider network and measurement based care
Virtual healthcare platform for telehealth and telemedicine
Guided digital cognitive behavioural therapy with a published randomised trial evidence base
Server-side streaming PACS built for radiologists reading very large studies over thin connections
Period and cycle tracking app owned by German company Biowink, positioned around science based tracking and a published stance against sharing data with law enforcement
Patient portal for accessing health records and communicating with providers
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What people switch to, and what they give up
Every tier, and where the cost actually lands
Put it head to head with anything we hold
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Clinical laboratory middleware and informatics from a diagnostics instrument manufacturer
quoteOpen source hospital information system and EMR for low-resource hospitals, built on OpenMRS
Open source, no licence feePeriod and cycle tracking app owned by German company Biowink, positioned around science based tracking and a published stance against sharing data with law enforcement
Free with a Plus subscriptionPeriod and cycle tracking app that settled with the US FTC in 2021 over sharing health data with third parties despite promising not to
Free with a Premium subscriptionOpen source health information platform run from the University of Oslo and used by national ministries
Open source, no licence feeMulti-finding chest X-ray and head CT triage AI with FDA clearance on named findings, not on the whole model
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