Category: Economics

Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, Reassessing Our Public Health Infrastructure, 08/28/2020

Reassessing Our Public Health Infrastructure How well do you think the public health system in the U.S. held… Read More

By David Burda August 28, 2020

High-Performing Professionals Run on Self-Awareness

Developing this self-awareness requires the courage to receive feedback from others. Martina Navratilova is one of the greatest… Read More

By Terri A. Brady August 26, 2020

Economics

Fixing Healthcare Would Be Easy If It Wasn’t So Hard

Fixing healthcare is very easy and extremely difficult at the same time. That dichotomy is what gives the… Read More

By David Burda August 25, 2020

Economics

4sight Friday | Healthcare’s Gray Rhinos | Regulating Chatbots | PPE Shortages Redux?

Read 08/21/2020 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More

By David Burda August 21, 2020

Economics

Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, PPE and the Healthcare Supply Chain, 08/21/2020

PPE and the Healthcare Supply Chain Did we learn our lesson or are we going to make the… Read More

By David Burda August 21, 2020

The Future of Hospitals in Post-COVID America (Part 1): The Market Response

Editor’s Note: This is the first of two articles on the Future of Hospitals in Post-COVID America. This… Read More

By Carsten Beith, James Maloney and David W. Johnson August 19, 2020

Economics

Primary-Care Physicians versus The World (Mostly Pharmacists, Really)

Everyone loves primary care. Everyone hates primary-care physicians. Well, maybe not everyone, but certainly the healthcare market and… Read More

By David Burda August 13, 2020

Economics

Bigger Isn’t Necessarily Better for Patient Care When It Comes to Health Systems

I think we all can agree now that provider integration doesn’t lower healthcare prices. When hospitals buy or… Read More

By David Burda August 11, 2020

Outcomes

Op-Ed: Parochial politics killed health care transformation on Chicago’s South Side (Chicago Tribune)

Mercy Hospital and Medical Center in Bronzeville announced on July 29, 2020, it would close in 2021. It didn’t… Read More

By David W. Johnson August 10, 2020

Economics