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 personnel 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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4sight Friday | March 15, 2024
4sight Friday | Chris Johnson Tells You What You Can Do With Your Data | Private Equity Con… Read More
By March 15, 2024
Economics
Podcast: Private Equity in Healthcare: Con Man or Straw Man? 3/14/24
Everyone is hating on private equity acquisitions and ownership in healthcare right now. Is it justified? Will bad… Read More
By March 14, 2024
Economics
Third Time’s Not the Charm for Healthcare Ransomware Attacks
Once is news. Twice is a trend. The third time is old news. That’s one approach to covering… Read More
By March 13, 2024
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Podcast: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think with Chris Johnson
Chris Johnson on Chronic Disease Management and Care in the Home Chris Johnson, the former CEO of Landmark… Read More
By March 12, 2024
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How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with Chris Johnson
Welcome to the latest installment of 4sight Health’s series, How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think. Our interview series profiles healthcare… Read More
By March 12, 2024
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4sight Friday | March 8, 2024
4sight Friday | Measuring the Aftershocks of the Change Healthcare Cyberattack | Is Healthcare’s Past Its Future? |… Read More
By March 8, 2024
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Podcast: Lessons Learned From the Change Healthcare Ransomware Attack 3/7/24
The ransomware attack on Change Healthcare sent shockwaves through an industry like no other cyberattack in recent memory…. Read More
By March 7, 2024
Consumerism
Spy vs. Spy? More Like Medicare vs. Medicare Advantage
If you follow my columns, blog posts and podcasts on 4sighthealth.com, you know that I’m not much for… Read More
By March 6, 2024
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4sight Friday | March 1, 2024
4sight Friday | Wither Traditional Medicare? | Napping on Healthcare Fraud | Consumers on Affordability, Racism and Obesity… Read More
By March 1, 2024
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