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case-studyJune 18, 2026 ZENO Team 6 min read

AI Mention Tracking in Healthcare: Zeno Visibility Analyzes Brand Mentions in ChatGPT for a Leading Multi-Specialty Company

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Starting Point

A leading healthcare provider with multiple specialty departments commissioned Zeno Visibility to analyze its visibility in generative AI systems. The organization operates 14 locations across Germany and Switzerland, offers services spanning orthopedics, cardiology, oncology, radiology, and rehabilitation, and generates approximately €240 million in annual revenue. The marketing team was already working with traditional SEO, paid campaigns, and a central content portal with more than 600 pages.

The initial situation was technically demanding: a single brand encompassed multiple medical service areas with distinct target audiences, search intents, and compliance requirements. At the same time, a new pattern was emerging in sales and patient communication — an increasing number of first contacts were being initiated not through traditional search engines, but through ChatGPT and other LLMs. The team therefore wanted to know not just whether the brand appeared in AI responses, but also in what context, across which specialty departments, and how it compared to competitors. This is precisely where the LLM Brand Monitoring project began.

The internal question was: How can the brand's semantic authority be structured so that generative AI systems reliably identify the right specialty departments as relevant sources and options?

Challenge

The problem was less about missing visibility and more about inconsistent visibility. In ChatGPT, individual specialty departments of the brand were occasionally mentioned, but not consistently and not in the desired order. For queries about orthopedic procedures, competitors with more interconnected content sometimes appeared ahead — despite the organization's objectively superior medical expertise.

There was also a structural issue: existing content was well-prepared for human readers and traditional SEO, but lacked sufficient semantic interconnection. Specialty departments, service pages, FAQs, guides, and case studies existed in isolation from one another. As a result, LLMs could not clearly identify which page served as the primary source for which entity, service, or query.

The consequence was a measurable risk to brand and demand generation: fewer qualified AI-driven recommendations, inconsistent brand perception, and a growing gap relative to competitors who had already begun aligning their content more deliberately with generative systems.

Approach

Zeno Visibility was engaged to first measure the brand's current presence across relevant LLMs, then build a robust content and authority architecture. The primary focus was on ChatGPT, supplemented by comparisons with Gemini, Perplexity, Claude, and Copilot. Zeno Visibility's research engine established a baseline Semantic Authority Score and revealed which specialty departments were already being mentioned in which prompt clusters — and where gaps existed.

Based on this analysis, the team developed an Authority System for 18 prioritized keyword clusters, covering both transactional and informational search patterns such as "knee arthroscopy," "cardiac catheterization," "rehab after hip replacement," and "interdisciplinary tumor treatment." The Authority System Builder generated a complete semantic system per cluster, comprising more than 100 content components, including:

  • Hub pages for each medical specialty
  • In-depth articles with precise medical terminology
  • FAQs addressing common patient questions
  • Comparison pages covering treatment options
  • Case studies illustrating typical care pathways
  • Social and short-form content for topic amplification
  • What mattered was not sheer volume, but semantic connectivity. Zeno Visibility automatically generated internal link structures, Schema.org JSON-LD, and clear entity mappings between specialty departments, services, locations, and physician expertise. This optimized the content landscape for machine readability and knowledge graph anchoring.

    Implementation followed three steps:

  • LLM Brand Monitoring and Benchmarking: Capturing current mentions in ChatGPT and benchmarking against direct competitors.
  • Semantic Architecture: Defining entities, clusters, and priorities across medical specialty departments.
  • Publishing and Scaling: Exporting content in CMS-ready formats and integrating directly into the existing WordPress setup; structured data was additionally provided for selected pages.
  • The first system went live within six weeks. After twelve weeks, the first meaningful shifts in LLM response patterns were measurable.

    Results

    After 90 days, clear improvements in brand presence within generative AI systems were evident.

  • Before/After Comparison
  • Before: The brand was mentioned in ChatGPT for specialty-related queries in only 22% of tested prompts.
  • After: The mention rate rose to 61%.
  • Before: For complex multi-part queries, competitors frequently appeared ahead of the brand's own specialty departments.
  • After: In 7 out of 10 tested core prompts, at least one of the brand's specialty departments was mentioned correctly and in the appropriate context.
  • KPIs and Metrics
  • Semantic Authority Score: +38% vs. baseline
  • Average presence across all tested LLMs: +29%
  • Share of correctly attributed specialty department mentions: from 54% to 83%
  • Organic sessions on prioritized hub pages: +31%
  • Conversion rate from informational pages to appointment or contact requests: +18%
  • ROI
  • The investment in content and structural improvements paid for itself in approximately five months, driven primarily by more qualified first contacts and improved utilization across two prioritized specialty departments.
  • Equally important was the quality shift: the brand was mentioned more frequently in the correct clinical context, with fewer mix-ups between locations, services, and areas of specialization.

    Lessons Learned

  • LLM Brand Monitoring must be conducted at the specialty department level. Monitoring an overall brand is too broad; generative systems operate with a strong focus on entities and context.
  • Content volume alone is not enough. What matters are semantic connections, clear hierarchies, and machine-readable structure.
  • Building authority is a systems challenge. Hub pages, FAQs, case studies, and structured data must work together for AI to consistently categorize the brand correctly.
  • Multi-channel monitoring is essential. ChatGPT produces different patterns than Gemini or Perplexity; monitoring only one system means missing the full picture.
  • GEO complements SEO — it does not replace it. Traditional search visibility remains relevant, but is increasingly extended by generative recommendation logic.
  • Summary

    This case study demonstrates that LLM Brand Monitoring in healthcare cannot stop at observation alone. Working with Zeno Visibility, a diffuse AI presence was transformed into structured semantic authority across multiple specialty departments. The outcome: more accurate mentions in ChatGPT, better specialty-level attribution, and a measurable increase in qualified demand.

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