David Burda

David Burda began covering healthcare in 1983 and hasn’t stopped since. Dave writes this monthly column “Burda on Healthcare,” contributes weekly blog posts, manages our weekly newsletter 4sight Friday, and hosts our weekly Roundup podcast. Dave believes that healthcare is a business like any other business, and customers — patients — are king. If you do what’s right for patients, good business results will follow.

Dave’s personnel experiences with the healthcare system both as a patient and family caregiver have shaped his point of view. It’s also been shaped by covering the industry for 40 years as a reporter and editor. He worked at Modern Healthcare for 25 years, the last 11 as editor.

Prior to Modern Healthcare, he did stints at the American Medical Record Association (now AHIMA) and the American Hospital Association. After Modern Healthcare, he wrote a monthly column for Twin Cities Business explaining healthcare trends to a business audience, and he developed and executed content marketing plans for leading healthcare corporations as the editorial director for healthcare strategies at MSP Communications.

When he’s not reading and writing about healthcare, Dave spends his time riding the trails of DuPage County, IL, on his bike, tending his vegetable garden and daydreaming about being a lobster fisherman in Maine. He lives in Wheaton, IL, with his lovely wife of 40 years and his three children, none of whom want to be journalists or lobster fishermen.

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Consumerism
Inconvenient Competition
When better customer service is a competitive threat, it really is time to rethink your business model.  That… Read More
By August 8, 2019
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Consumerism
Who Will Rule Healthcare in 2030?
What will healthcare be like 10 years from now? Not a lot of healthcare executives toiling in our… Read More
By August 6, 2019
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Consumerism
4sight Friday: Rethinking Patient Safety Solutions | Coverage Cost Casualties | Smart End-of-Life Decisions
  Read 08/02/2019 Edition here.  Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Read his columns… Read More
By August 2, 2019
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Economics
The Rising Cost of Family Coverage Is No Joke
You might have heard about this on the news. A new study is out that says employer-sponsored health… Read More
By August 1, 2019
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Outcomes
Desperately Seeking Market-Based Patient Safety Solutions – Burda on Healthcare
This Nov. 29 will mark the 20th anniversary of the release of the report, To Err Is Human:… Read More
By July 30, 2019
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Innovation
4sight Friday: Searching for ACO Outcomes | Liberating Medical Data | Delicious Medicare Benefits
  Read 07/26/2019 Edition here.  Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Read his columns… Read More
By July 26, 2019
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Economics
There’s No O (outcomes) in ACO
Medicare accountable care organizations say they’re doing a lot to manage and coordinate the care of sick beneficiaries…. Read More
By July 24, 2019
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Economics
4sight Friday: Staffing Healthcare’s Future | Aligning SDOH and Reimbursement | Mandating Effective Clinical Practices
  Read 07/19/2019 Edition here.  Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Read his columns… Read More
By July 19, 2019
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Economics
4sight Friday: What Healthcare Revolutionaries Read | Not-for-Profit Hospitals and Taxes | Healthcare Innovation Takes Many Forms
  Read 07/12/2019 Edition here.  Curated by David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor and columnist. Read his columns… Read More
By July 12, 2019
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