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
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, A Medicare Advantage Checkup, 7/9/21
A Medicare Advantage Checkup Costs, benefits, star ratings and payments. We examined all of these aspects and more… Read More
By July 9, 2021
Economics
Of Benefits and Behaviors
One of our mantras at 4sight Health is that we won’t change the way we deliver care until… Read More
By July 7, 2021
COVID-19
What Revolutionary Healthcare Leaders Are Reading, Listening To or Singing Along With: The Top 12 on 4sighthealth.com So Far This Year
They say you have to reach people where they are in today’s digitally-savvy, technology-enabled, on-demand world. It’s no… Read More
By July 6, 2021
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Consumerism
4sight Health | Our Most-Popular Revolutionary Content | Primary Care Is Healthcare’s It Girl
Read 7/2/2021 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More
By July 2, 2021
Outcomes
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup. Social Determinants, Digital Health and Medicare Spending, 7/2/21
Social Determinants, Digital Health and Medicare Spending Two new reports shed light on some obvious and not-so-obvious ways… Read More
By July 2, 2021
Outcomes
Primary Care Predeterminism
Healthcare’s “it girl” right now is primary care. Everyone wants to provide it. Everyone wants to provide it… Read More
By June 30, 2021
Policy
Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, ACOs, Bundled Payments and the Future of Value-Based Reimbursement, 6/25/21
ACOs, Bundled Payments and the Future of Value-Based Reimbursement Where are value-based reimbursement models headed? Two new studies… Read More
By June 25, 2021
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Outcomes
4sight Friday | My Personal Alzheimer’s Journey | Why Rural Hospitals Close
Read 6/25/2021 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More
By June 25, 2021
Consumerism
The Simple Reason Why Rural Hospitals Close
It’s said that the simplest explanation often is the correct explanation. It’s usually the spouse. It’s probably indigestion…. Read More
By June 23, 2021
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