Category: Innovation

Will Healthcare Become Unaffordable for Most of Us?

America has faced healthcare affordability crises before. In the 1970s, soaring health costs prompted President Richard Nixon to… Read More

By Ken Terry September 8, 2026

Podcast: AI Innovation Creates an Interoperability Challenge of Epic Proportions 9/3/26

When EHR vendors, AI tools and interoperability mandates collide, who comes out on top? And how does that… Read More

By David Burda September 3, 2026

Economics

Burda on Healthcare: Motive, Means and Opportunity: Billing Codes Are Murdering Healthcare

My knowledge of medical billing codes and coding has been strictly professional. My first full-time job in journalism… Read More

By David Burda September 1, 2026

Podcast: Lines Drawn Over Future of AI in Medicine 8/27/26

Physicians only? Artificial intelligence only? Physician-AI hybrid? The lines are being drawn. But who’s drawing them and why?… Read More

By David Burda August 27, 2026

The Primary Care Infrastructure Alliance: What Healthcare Can Learn From OneWorld

Primary care has an access problem, but we keep trying to solve it as an ownership problem. Demand… Read More

By Mike Eaton August 25, 2026

Podcast: Market Power of Epic, AMA Comes Under Fire 8/20/26

The Healthcare Industrial Complex took on fire separately from the Federal Trade Commission and from PatientRightsAdvocate.org over who… Read More

By David Burda August 20, 2026

4sight Friday 8/14/26

4sight Friday | Synthetic Consolidation in Healthcare | The ROI of Government Health Insurance Subsidies | Do Physician… Read More

By David Burda August 14, 2026

How AI Will Replace Your PCP — If It Hasn’t Already

A couple of weeks ago, I read Reid Hoffman’s latest Theory of the Game piece, “What If Everyone Could Afford… Read More

By Ann Somers Hogg July 21, 2026

4sight Friday 7/17/26

4sight Friday | GLP-1 Market Machinations | Going Full Flock Camera on Our Health | How Mayo’s Dennis Dahlen… Read More

By David Burda July 17, 2026

Innovation