Category: Innovation

Healthcare’s Epic Problem & the Audacity of Liberating Patient Data

The gloves are off and the big guns are out. Epic Systems Corporation, the nation’s largest EHR vendor,… Read More

By David W. Johnson February 3, 2020

4sight Friday: The Outlook of Outlooks | Death by Merger | Fixing Medicare Advantage

Read 01/31/2020 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Read his columns… Read More

By David Burda January 31, 2020

Consumerism

What’s Going to Happen in Healthcare in 2020—or Not: A Meta Review of Industry Outlooks

Maybe it’s because it’s a new decade. Maybe it’s because the year 2020 makes for easy vision analogies…. Read More

By David Burda January 28, 2020

Consumerism

A Sign That Health System Leaders Are Starting to Take Their Customers Seriously

As a highly skeptical healthcare business journalist, I tune my radar to look for dark clouds rather than… Read More

By David Burda January 22, 2020

Economics

4sight Friday: 4 Ways to Relieve Margin Pressure | Digital Health Betting Favorites | Have We Reached Poll Tax Status?

Read 01/10/2020 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Read his columns… Read More

By David Burda January 10, 2020

Economics

Unrelenting Margin Pressures: Overcoming Healthcare’s Softening Revenues and Rising Expenses

Key Takeaways: Despite favorable rating agency outlooks, the 2020s promise to be healthcare’s most turbulent decade since the… Read More

By Jeff Jones and David W. Johnson January 9, 2020

Consumerism

What Digital Health Technologies Investors Are Betting On

As a business journalist, I hang out at the corner of “follow the money” and “actions speak louder… Read More

By David Burda January 8, 2020

5 Healthcare Tech Segments with Massive Potential

Consumerism was the hot topic of healthcare in 2019. Retail giants CVS, Walmart, Apple and Amazon now offer… Read More

By David W. Johnson January 7, 2020

Innovation

4sight Friday: Clinical Decision Support Lacking | Quality of Care at Acquired Hospitals | Private Equity and New Cancer Drugs

Read 01/03/2020 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Read his columns… Read More

By David Burda January 3, 2020

Innovation