DALLAS - s4story -- Social Knowing, an independent research journal published by Socialhose, today released The Texas Healthcare Conversation Report (Edition 02), an analysis of 13 weeks of public social posts about Texas healthcare (April 1 through June 30, 2026). The report measures what it calls the Voice Gap: the difference in sentiment between posts from healthcare institutions, which mostly cover hiring, grand openings, and awards, and posts from patients describing their own care.

Key findings:

• The Voice Gap measured 47.6 points. Institutional posts ran 78% positive and 5% negative over the quarter. Patient posts ran 53% negative, dominated by accounts of bills, waits, dismissals, and facility closures.
• The gap grew during the quarter. Measured week by week across 1,564 analyzed posts, it widened by 10.4 points between the opening of the quarter and its close.
• The two groups largely talk about different subjects. Cost and coverage lead patient posts at 22%, and patients account for 39% of all cost-themed posts in the sample. Institutional accounts post mostly about their own hiring and community events, and rarely address the topics patients raise most often.
• Patients post about the system far more than the system posts about itself. Patient posts make up 24% of the healthcare conversation; institutional posts make up 5%.
• A significant share of the conversation happens in Spanish. 16% of the analyzed posts fall under Spanish-language service topics such as appointments, vaccines, and access, and 52% of those posts are negative. The report reads this as a separate access channel with its own concerns, not a translation of the English conversation.

"We don't treat the patient side as a correction of what hospitals say about themselves," said Mo Elzubeir, Socialhose Founder. "Hospitals really are hiring and opening new facilities, and patients really are dealing with bills, long waits, and closures. Both are accurate descriptions of the same system. What we track is how far apart they sit, and this quarter they moved further apart."

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Methodology. All figures come from the Socialhose Public API, the same feed that powers Social Knowing's always-on TX Health Monitor board. Posts were sampled evenly across the 13-week window, then classified by voice (institutional, patient, policy and press), theme, sentiment, and Spanish-service topic. The published figures are frozen at publication and will not change; the TX Health Monitor carries the current reading between editions. Full methodology, figures, and the voice-by-theme matrix are published with the report.

Read the full report: https://socialknowing.com/reports/tx-health-conversation-q2-2026
Live instrument (current reading): TX Health Monitor

About Social Knowing. Social Knowing is an independent research journal published by Socialhose.

About Socialhose. Socialhose provides real-time access to the public social and news conversation through its Public API. Learn more at socialhose.net.

Media contact: Khalid Abbas Media Relations, Socialhose abbas@socialhose.net · (469) 669-3309

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