David Burda

David Burda began covering healthcare in 1983 and hasn’t stopped since. Dave writes this monthly column “Burda on Healthcare,” contributes weekly blog posts, manages our weekly newsletter 4sight Friday, and hosts our weekly Roundup podcast. Dave believes that healthcare is a business like any other business, and customers — patients — are king. If you do what’s right for patients, good business results will follow.

Dave’s personal experiences with the healthcare system both as a patient and family caregiver have shaped his point of view. It’s also been shaped by covering the industry for 40 years as a reporter and editor. He worked at Modern Healthcare for 25 years, the last 11 as editor.

Prior to Modern Healthcare, he did stints at the American Medical Record Association (now AHIMA) and the American Hospital Association. After Modern Healthcare, he wrote a monthly column for Twin Cities Business explaining healthcare trends to a business audience, and he developed and executed content marketing plans for leading healthcare corporations as the editorial director for healthcare strategies at MSP Communications.

When he’s not reading and writing about healthcare, Dave spends his time riding the trails of DuPage County, IL, on his bike, tending his vegetable garden and daydreaming about being a lobster fisherman in Maine. He lives in Wheaton, IL, with his lovely wife of 40 years and his three children, none of whom want to be journalists or lobster fishermen.

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Podcast: Responding to the OBBB’s Impact on Healthcare 7/24/25
If you ran a healthcare company or organization right now, what would you do to prepare from the… Read More
By July 24, 2025
Outcomes
Can the Market Save Maternity Care and Our Future?
My wife of 42 years is a former labor and delivery nurse and a nursing professor who taught… Read More
By July 23, 2025
Outcomes
Podcast: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think With Ardy Arianpour
Ardy Arianpour on DNA Sequencing, Personalized Medicine and Politics in Washington Ardy Arianpour is CEO and co-founder of… Read More
By July 22, 2025
Innovation
How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions With Ardy Arianpour
Welcome to the latest installment of 4sight Health’s series, How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think. Our interview series profiles healthcare… Read More
By July 22, 2025
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4sight Friday 7/18/25
4sight Friday | Making Portals Work Harder for Patients | Healthcare’s Big Fix | Open Payments Reveal Open… Read More
By July 18, 2025
Policy
Podcast: Filling In the Patient Portal Blanks 7/17/25
A new report says patient portal use is up. But what can we do to make them more… Read More
By July 17, 2025
Economics
Open Payments? More Like Open Pockets.
I’ve been writing a lot lately about how healthcare is impervious to change. Nothing you throw at this… Read More
By July 16, 2025
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4sight Friday 7/11/25
4sight Friday | The Future of Specialty Care | Behavioral Health Crisis Keeps Getting Younger | Waiting in… Read More
By July 11, 2025
Policy
Podcast: What the Future of Specialty Care Looks Like 7/10/25
What’s the future — or fate — of medical specialty care and medical specialists? We talked about it… Read More
By July 10, 2025
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