Category: System Dynamics

Lane Assist for Filling Prescription Drugs

I bought a new car in 2020. It’s the same make and model as my wife’s car, which… Read More

By David Burda January 22, 2025

Medicare Enrollment Trends in Four Charts

As a journalist, I love projections, estimates, predictions and speculation. They all make good stories. But what I… Read More

By David Burda January 15, 2025

Outcomes

Putting Physicians at Financial Risk Might Reduce Misdiagnosis

Misdiagnosis leads to an estimated 371,000 deaths and 424,000 permanent disabilities in this country each year. I believe… Read More

By Ken Terry January 14, 2025

Policy

Medicare Privatization Is Breaking the Bank

I’m out of analogies to capture the disaster that is federal spending on the Medicare Advantage (MA) program…. Read More

By David Burda January 8, 2025

Burda on Healthcare: Hard Lessons in Health Insurance Market Dynamics

As open enrollment season ends and the health insurance year begins, let’s look at what three new reports… Read More

By David Burda January 7, 2025

Spike in Physician Unionization Another Sign That Healthcare Needs Change

The murder of a health insurance executive last month on the streets of New York and the lack… Read More

By David Burda January 2, 2025

Revenue Cycle Risk Takers

I’ve been a freelance healthcare reporter/writer/editor for more than six years now. By choice. After two publishing companies… Read More

By David Burda December 18, 2024

Outcomes

Burda on Healthcare: Forgetting — Or Ignoring — An Important Patient Safety Anniversary

Last month marked an important healthcare anniversary. It was the 25th anniversary of To Err Is Human: Building… Read More

By David Burda December 17, 2024

Outcomes

From Benefit to Business: Did Medicare Privatization Lead to Murder?

The brazen assassination of healthcare insurance executive Brian Thompson, CEO of UnitedHealthcare, has everyone commenting on the deeper… Read More

By David Burda December 11, 2024

System Dynamics