Category: System Dynamics

Old vs. New Medicine: It’s Time to Topple the Hierarchy

In 2007, Donald Berwick and his colleagues at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement introduced the concept of healthcare’s… Read More

By David W. Johnson and David B. Nash, MD, MBA February 21, 2023

Outcomes

The Way Healthcare’s Working Isn’t Working (Part 2): Changing Mechanics

Note: This is Part 2 in a series about system dynamics in healthcare, exploring how healthcare organizations can… Read More

By David W. Johnson and Brianna Zink February 16, 2023

The Way Healthcare’s Working Isn’t Working (2-Part Series)

In this series, 4sight Health’s David W. Johnson and Infor’s Brianna Zink and Marcus Mossberger highlight things that… Read More

By David W. Johnson February 16, 2023

Are Healthcare Consumers Starting to Feel Their Oats?

I played a lot of baseball when I was younger, and I helped coach my sons’ baseball teams… Read More

By David Burda February 15, 2023

Economics

Five More Things I Didn’t Know About Drugs and Drug Prices

Anytime I write about drug costs or the pharmaceutical industry, I get a handful of emails telling me… Read More

By David Burda February 8, 2023

Burda on Healthcare: When Healthcare Sends the Wrong Message

A recent story in the New York Times on hospitals and medical practices charging patients a fee when… Read More

By David Burda February 7, 2023

COVID-19

Commentary Collection from 2022 Continues with Weiss, Weems, Murchinson and Nash

Executives pay attention: The experts we invite to write 4sight Health commentaries lay out the future of our… Read More

By David W. Johnson February 2, 2023

COVID-19

Podcast: Healthcare After the Public Health Emergency 2/3/23

More than three years of expansions, exemptions and suspensions ends in May when the COVID-19 pandemic public health… Read More

By David Burda February 2, 2023

Don’t Drink ONC’s Glass-Half-Full Hospital Interoperability Report

Yes, my journalistic skepticism borders on cynicism. But come on already! Nearly 40 percent of hospitals in the… Read More

By David Burda February 1, 2023

System Dynamics