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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Economics
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, Digital Health Wheeling and Dealing, 1/14/22
Digital Health Wheeling and Dealing Digital health technology funding is through the roof along with digital health M&A… Read More
By January 14, 2022
Economics
Adding Up the Romantic and Philosophical Benefits of Provider Affiliations
In Bargain, Pete Townshend of The Who sings, “One and one don’t make two. One and one make… Read More
By January 12, 2022
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Economics
4sight Friday | 2022 Healthcare Predictions | Is VBR Mostly Dead or Slightly Alive?
Read 1/7/2022 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More
By January 7, 2022
Consumerism
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, What’s On Our Healthcare Radar in 2022, 1/7/22
What’s On Our Healthcare Radar in 2022 What will the healthcare system deliver in the year ahead? We… Read More
By January 7, 2022
Economics
Burda on Healthcare: Is Value-Based Reimbursement Mostly Dead or Slightly Alive?
One of my favorite scenes in The Princess Bride is when Miracle Max tells Inigo and Fezzik that… Read More
By January 6, 2022
Economics
Unfazed by Unbridled Medicare Advantage Spending
You know what’s a big number? 9.7 percent is a big number. That’s how much total national health… Read More
By January 5, 2022
COVID-19
What Revolutionary Healthcare Leaders Are Consuming: The Top 7 on 4sighthealth.com Since Mid-2021
Below find the top-consumed 4sight Health content from the second half of 2021, from your favorite revolutionary healthcare… Read More
By January 4, 2022
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Consumerism
4sight Friday | Educating Patients on Primary Care | Incentivizing Patient Safety
Read 12/31/2021 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More
By December 31, 2021
Policy
Why Reinventing Primary Care Starts with Patient Education
Everyone from healthcare incumbents to entrepreneurs to vertical integrators to new market entrants is trying to reinvent primary… Read More
By December 29, 2021
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