Healthcare IT News June 25, 2025
Andrea Fox

Providers need to listen more carefully to patient feedback, and to be more discreet in how they respond online to avoid potential HIPAA violations, a broad new analysis of review scores shows.

Between 2019 and 2023, patient volume at U.S. urgent care centers increased by 60%. But while that surge in demand highlights urgent care’s value, especially when compared with crowded hospital emergency rooms, there are significant improvements that can be made for better patient experience, a new report shows.

An analysis of 350,000 patient reviews from 10 of the nation’s largest urgent care providers found wait times remained a top patient complaint. Meanwhile, allegations of improper care increased 6.5%, according to this year’s urgent care patient experience report from...

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