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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Popular Patient Safety Stories
You can easily tell 4sight Health’s core philosophy. We live by six words: Outcomes Matter. Customers Count. Value… Read More
By August 10, 2021
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4sight Friday | Playing Hospital Price Transparency Gotcha | A Video Debate Over Medicare For All
Read 8/6/2021 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More
By August 6, 2021
Consumerism
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, Why Aren’t Hospitals Complying with the Price Transparency Regs?, 8/6/21
Why Aren’t Hospitals Complying with the Price Transparency Regs? What will it take to get hospitals to post… Read More
By August 6, 2021
Economics
Death by Revenue Cycle
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By August 4, 2021
Consumerism
Hospital Spotting: How New Price Transparency Regs Spawned a New Cottage Industry
A conversation overheard at an evening reception during a recent healthcare industry conference: Attendee one: “So, what do… Read More
By August 3, 2021
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4sight Friday | Accelerating Healthcare Transformation | Is There Truth In Hospital Advertising?
Read 7/30/2021 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More
By July 30, 2021
COVID-19
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, Population Health and the Pandemic, 7/30/21
Population Health and the Pandemic What long-term effects will the pandemic have on population health in the U.S.?… Read More
By July 30, 2021
Economics
Virtual Debate | Single-Payer Healthcare: For or Against? | Gerald Friedman vs. David Johnson
Watch our first ever virtual health policy debate where we discussed Medicare for All. Arguing in favor of… Read More
By , and July 29, 2021
Consumerism
Should Consumers Trust Hospital Advertising?
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By July 28, 2021
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