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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System Dynamics
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, More Questions About Hospitals’ Tax-Exempt Status, 2/18/22
More Questions About Hospitals’ Tax-Exempt Status Two more reports raise questions about giving not-for-profit hospitals and health systems… Read More
By February 18, 2022
Innovation
How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with David Snow
Welcome to the latest installment of 4sight Health’s series, How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think. Our interview series profiles healthcare… Read More
By February 17, 2022
Consumerism
Where Are Employers on Healthcare Price Transparency?
Industry incumbents like hospitals and health plans really don’t have their hearts in this whole cost and price… Read More
By February 16, 2022
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Policy
4sight Friday | Why We Need To Fix Nonprofit Healthcare | What’s Your Healthcare Playlist?
Read 2/11/2022 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More
By February 11, 2022
Outcomes
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, Can We Cure Structural Racism in Healthcare with a Fifth Aim?, 2/11/22
Can We Cure Structural Racism in Healthcare with a Fifth Aim? Advocates want to make health equity a… Read More
By February 11, 2022
Economics
Fighting Fraud Instead of Election Results
What a difference an administration makes, right? Correlation isn’t causation, but it sure seems like the U.S. Justice… Read More
By February 9, 2022
Innovation
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, What Patients See in Telemedicine, 2/4/22
What Patient See in Telemedicine Who likes it? Who doesn’t? And why? We talked about the future of… Read More
By February 4, 2022
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Consumerism
4sight Friday | Provider Know Thy Customer | Video Rocks Consumer Healthcare | What Patients See
Read 2/4/2022 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More
By February 4, 2022
Outcomes
Would Healthcare Have Gotten Away with Health Inequity if it Wasn’t for that Meddling Virus?
I’m a big fan of the original Scooby-Doo cartoon series, “Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!” I laugh every time… Read More
By February 2, 2022
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