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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Consumerism
Burda on Healthcare: Provider, Know Thy Customer
I had what I consider my first real telemedicine visit with a doctor the other day. I didn’t… Read More
By February 1, 2022
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Innovation
4sight Friday | Going the Last Mile to the Patient | Who’s on Your Cancer Roll? | Disrupting the Generic Drug Market
Read 1/28/2022 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More
By January 28, 2022
Consumerism
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, Shaking Up the Generic Drug Market, 1/28/22
Shaking Up the Generic Drug Market What impact will Mark Cuban’s new online pharmacy have on the generic… Read More
By January 28, 2022
Consumerism
How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think: 10 Questions with Kristen Valdes
Welcome to the latest installment of 4sight Health’s series, How Healthcare Revolutionaries Think. Our interview series profiles healthcare… Read More
By January 27, 2022
Economics
How Long is Your Cancer Roll?
A woman I used to work with recently died from cancer. We weren’t close, but I heard secondhand… Read More
By January 26, 2022
Economics
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, Medicare Advantage Warning Signs, 1/21/22
Medicare Advantage Warning Signs What’s right with Medicare Advantage? What’s wrong with Medicare Advantage? Where does Medicare Advantage… Read More
By January 21, 2022
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Policy
4sight Friday | MLK And Health Equity | Medicare Advantage Warning Signs
Read 1/21/2022 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More
By January 21, 2022
Economics
How the Other Half Lives: Selling to Hospitals and Health Systems
In this life, as a healthcare journalist, I’m usually writing about what providers and payers are doing or… Read More
By January 19, 2022
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COVID-19
4sight Health | Insurrection Lessons For Healthcare | Embracing Cognitive Behavioral Therapy
Read 1/14/2022 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More
By January 14, 2022
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