Case Study · Healthcare

NovaMed Health:
Schema 'A' Grade in 75 Days

How a medical information platform eliminated compliance gaps and saw a 52% jump in rich result appearances — and began appearing in AI health query answers.

Healthcare · Medical Information

NovaMed Health: From D-Grade Schema to AI-Cited Medical Authority

Healthcare · Medical Information Platform · 75-Day Engagement

Before Score
61/100
After Score
94/100
Timeline
75 Days

Trusted by doctors. Invisible to AI.

NovaMed Health had built a respected library of physician-authored medical content with over 3,000 articles reviewed by licensed clinicians. Their Google rankings were strong for informational health queries. But when patients searched for health information through AI systems, NovaMed was rarely mentioned — despite their clinical credibility far outpacing what was being cited.

Seraph's audit identified the root cause immediately. Healthcare content carries unique AI visibility requirements: MedicalWebPage schema, author credential markup, and HowTo/FAQ structures for clinical guidance. NovaMed had almost none of these — and their E-E-A-T signals, while genuine in practice, were invisible to the structured data layer that AI systems read first. A D-grade Schema score was costing them authority they had legitimately earned.

  • No MedicalWebPage or MedicalCondition schema across 3,000+ articles
  • Author credentials not marked up — clinical authority invisible to AI
  • E-E-A-T signals present in content but not in structured data
  • Zero FAQ schema on high-traffic condition and symptom pages
  • HowTo markup missing from all treatment guidance articles
Severity Finding Impact
Critical No MedicalWebPage schema on clinical articles AI health systems cannot classify content as medically authoritative
Critical Author credentials not in structured data Physician review signals completely invisible to AI evaluation
High FAQ schema absent from 840 condition pages Missing FAQ rich result eligibility for highest-traffic queries
High Organization schema missing publisher information Brand entity not associated with medical institution category
Medium Breadcrumb schema inconsistent across site Navigation structure unclear to search and AI crawlers
Low Review schema missing from patient testimonials Social proof signals not captured in structured data

Credentialing the content layer.

NovaMed's engineering team used Seraph's LLM fix prompts to generate template schema blocks, then applied them systematically at the CMS level rather than article by article.

1
Weeks 1–3
Schema Templates

Built MedicalWebPage and Person (author) schema templates using Seraph's LLM fix prompts. Integrated templates into the CMS so all new articles auto-generate correct structured data.

2
Weeks 4–8
Backfill & Authority

Backfilled schema across the 3,000+ existing article library. Added author profile pages with Physician and MedicalOrganization markup. Submitted corrections to Google's Knowledge Panel for the brand entity.

3
Weeks 9–11
FAQ & HowTo Layer

Added FAQ schema to 840 condition and symptom pages. Marked up 220 treatment articles with HowTo schema. Seraph score climbed from 61 to 94 as rich result eligibility cascaded across the site.

75 days. Clinical authority, recognized.

+52%
Rich Result Appearances
+39%
AI Citation Rate
94/100
Final Seraph Score
A Grade
Schema Compliance

Clinical authority — finally legible to AI.

  • NovaMed articles now cited in Perplexity and ChatGPT health query answers
  • Featured snippet appearances increased 44% for condition and symptom queries
  • Author Knowledge Panels appeared for 12 senior physicians within 45 days
  • CMS integration means every new article auto-generates compliant schema
  • Organic health traffic up 31% vs. prior 75-day period

"We have 47 licensed physicians contributing to our content. Seraph helped us make that credibility visible to AI systems in a way we never knew was possible. Our content finally gets the recognition it deserves."

RK
Dr. Riya Kapoor Chief Medical Officer, NovaMed Health
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