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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Economics
4sight Friday 5/16/25
4sight Friday | The Sound and Fury of Trump’s Drug Plan | The Future of Clinical Labs |… Read More
By May 16, 2025
Consumerism
Podcast: Critiquing Trump’s Latest Plan to Lower Drug Prices 5/15/25
Will Trump’s executive order aimed at lowering drug prices for consumers be something or just sound and fury… Read More
By May 15, 2025
Outcomes
Don’t Let the Surgical Suite Door Hit You on the Way Out
I’m certainly not the first to see correlations between ownership and outcomes in healthcare. Tease out an administrative,… Read More
By May 14, 2025
Economics
Podcast: How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think With Hal Andrews
Podcast: Hal Andrews on the Biggest Trends Reshaping the Healthcare Economy President and CEO of Trilliant Health Hal… Read More
By May 8, 2025
Outcomes
Did You Hear? The Majority of Doctors Aren’t Burned Out.
That’s a headline you probably didn’t see last month when Mayo Clinic Proceedings published its latest semi-regular study… Read More
By May 7, 2025
Economics
Burda on Healthcare: Five Things I Should Have Asked Rick Scott
I’ve said this before, and my recent behavior confirms it. Most journalists are introverts. We become journalists because… Read More
By May 6, 2025
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System Dynamics
4sight Friday 5/2/25
4sight Friday | What Hath Healthcare Wrought With Vertical Integration? | A  Side of Salmonella With Your Public… Read More
By May 2, 2025
System Dynamics
Podcast: Putting Together the Pieces 5/1/25
Vertical integration and healthcare platforms. Are they good for healthcare consumers or just good for healthcare conglomerates? We… Read More
By May 1, 2025
Outcomes
Hey, Independents, Want Some Public Health News With Your Salmonella?
If you follow the news closely, you know that the Trump regime is dismantling our public health system… Read More
By April 30, 2025
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