Category: System Dynamics

Public Health and Healthcare in Post-COVID America: Innovative Solutions for a Healthier, More Prosperous Society

In the early 1900s, health epidemics ranging from cholera to typhoid plagued America’s increasingly crowded and polluted cities…. Read More

By Court H. Houseworth, Kyle Stern and David W. Johnson June 10, 2020

COVID-19

Consumers Counting on Private Sector to Produce Post-COVID Healthcare Market Innovations

Consumers want the private sector, not the federal government, to lead them out of this mess we call… Read More

By David Burda June 9, 2020

Consumerism

Podcast: 4sight Friday Roundup, How Will Providers Get Their Patients Back? 06/05/2020

How Will Providers Get Their Patients Back? Listen to this week’s 4sight Friday Roundup podcast for our thoughts… Read More

By David Burda June 5, 2020

Economics

Wealth and Income Inequality as a Cause of Societal Inequity

Wealth and income inequality have been defining issues in the United States. The added stress of Covid-19 has… Read More

By Allen Weiss June 3, 2020

Economics

Patients Shouldn’t Expect Their Local Merging Not-For-Profit Hospitals to be More Charitable

For an old healthcare legal reporter, writing about antitrust and community benefits in the same blog post is… Read More

By David Burda June 3, 2020

COVID-19 Put the C Back in Healthcare Consumerism (that’s the uppercase C in Consumerism, not the lowercase c in Healthcare)

Restaurants across the country laid off workers, limited menus and closed because COVID-19 took away their customers. Hospitals… Read More

By David Burda June 2, 2020

COVID-19

4sight Friday | The Need for Extreme Interoperability | Reversing Healthcare’s Wealth Transfer | COVID-19 and Workplace Wellness

Read 05/29/2020 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More

By David Burda May 29, 2020

Policy

Understanding Despair, Capture and Profiteering in American Healthcare

In their recent book “Deaths of Despair,” Anne Case and Angus Deaton chronicle the rise of drug overdose,… Read More

By Kerry Weems May 26, 2020

COVID-19

4sight Friday | Grading Drug Companies’ Pandemic Response | Surviving COVID-19 Margin Pressures | An ACO Coincidence

Read 05/22/2020 Edition here. Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Columns here. Find 4sight Health… Read More

By David Burda May 22, 2020

System Dynamics