4sight Health Roundup (for Healthcare Executives)
4sight Health Roundup
Your best 20 minutes this week, where outcomes matter, customers count and value rules. Hear analysis of the crucial market-based healthcare news and speculation for the week ahead. The customer revolution in healthcare comes alive in this must-listen podcast for forward-thinking healthcare executives.
David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor, hosts with commentary from David Johnson, 4sight Health’s CEO, and Julie Murchinson, Partner at Transformation Capital. Join the Customer Revolution!
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David Burda, 4sight Health’s news editor, hosts with commentary from David Johnson, 4sight Health’s CEO, and Julie Murchinson, Partner at Transformation Capital. Join the Customer Revolution!
Subscribe through your streaming service.
Read more at https://www.4sighthealth.com/insights/
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Oct 8, 2026 • 19min
How To Break Bad Digital Health Tech Buying Habits
Health systems, health plans and employers all buy digital health tools for their patients, members and employees. Are they getting what they paid for? Or are they wasting their money? David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson diagnose the problem and offer a treatment plan on, “How to Break Bad Digital Health Tech Buying Habits,” the new episode of the 4sight Health Roundup podcast, moderated by David Burda. Listen.
Oct 1, 2026 • 22min
How Can We Reduce Unnecessary Healthcare Spending? Spin the Wheel.
David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson separate fact from fiction in two new papers on how to bend the healthcare cost curve in the U.S. on, “How Can We Reduce Unnecessary Healthcare Spending? Spin the Wheel,” the new episode of the 4sight Health Roundup podcast, moderated by David Burda.
Sep 24, 2026 • 22min
Re-Imagining Maternity Care in the U.S.
Access to traditional hospital- and physician-based maternity care is dwindling in the U.S. What can we do to better serve pregnant women and newborns? David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson debate policy options and care model alternatives to improve access to safe and effective care on, “Re-Imagining Maternity Care in the U.S.,” the new episode of the 4sight Health Roundup podcast, moderated by David Burda.
Sep 17, 2026 • 21min
Leadership Competencies for the New Healthcare
What will it take to transform the U.S. healthcare system into one that expands access to more affordable and higher-quality services? It will take new leaders with a very particular set of skills, according to a new report. David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson break it down on, “Leadership Competencies for the New Healthcare,” the new episode of the 4sight Health Roundup podcast, moderated by David Burda.
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Sep 10, 2026 • 20min
Consumer Unrest Over Healthcare Costs Grows
Julie Murchinson, a healthcare investor focused on technology and innovation, joins David Johnson, a healthcare strategist focused on affordability and reform. They explore growing consumer frustration over insurance and medical costs, whether federal policy can deliver real change, technology’s potential to reduce waste, states’ role in controlling premiums, administrative friction, and the human toll of medical debt.
Sep 3, 2026 • 30min
AI Innovation Creates an Interoperability Challenge of Epic Proportions
Robert Pearl, M.D., former Permanente Medical Group CEO and Stanford faculty member, joins healthcare strategist David Johnson to debate Epic’s growing power over data, AI, and applications. They explore open EHR APIs, patient-facing AI, greenfield competition, standardized sandboxes, and whether language models can outpace traditional EHR innovation. The conversation also examines AI’s potential to raise costs or transform care at home.
Aug 27, 2026 • 19min
Lines Drawn Over Future of AI in Medicine
Julie Murchinson, a Transformation Capital partner focused on digital health, and David Johnson, 4sight Health CEO and healthcare analyst, debate medicine’s AI crossroads. Should physicians lead, machines decide, or both collaborate? They explore surging consumer use of health chatbots, AI’s emerging role as healthcare’s front door, startup opportunities, diagnostic accuracy, and the future relationship between doctors, patients, and intelligent systems.
Aug 20, 2026 • 20min
Market Power of Epic, AMA Comes Under Fire
The Healthcare Industrial Complex took on fire separately from the Federal Trade Commission and from PatientRightsAdvocate.org over who controls the EHR system market and the medical billing code market. David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson weigh the possible outcomes on, “Market Power of Epic, AMA Comes Under Fire,” the new episode of the 4sight Health Roundup podcast, moderated by David Burda.
Aug 13, 2026 • 20min
Government Health Insurance Subsidies: Too Much, Too Little or Just Right?
A new Congressional Budget Office report says the federal government will subsidize health insurance in the U.S. by more than $33 trillion over the next 10 years. David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson unpacked what we should expect in return on, “Government Health Insurance Subsidies: Too Much, Too Little or Just Right?” the new episode of the 4sight Health Roundup podcast, moderated by David Burda.
Aug 6, 2026 • 22min
AI, Productivity and the Future of the Healthcare Workforce
Three new reports are out on the challenges health system leaders will face as they retool their workforce over the next five years. David W. Johnson and Julie Murchinson identified critical success factors on, “AI, Productivity and the Future of the Healthcare Workforce,” the new episode of the 4sight Health Roundup podcast, moderated by David Burda.healthcare, ai, healthcare podcast, podcast, 4sight, 4sight roundup, healthcare workforce, david johnson, dave burda, julie murchinson
