Send health workers where they help the most.
Health systems never have enough doctors and nurses to go everywhere. ACWIS helps answer one question well: given a fixed budget, where should the next clinician go so the most people gain care? It predicts where shortages will grow, measures where an extra clinician makes the biggest real difference, and turns that into a clear, explainable plan.
Three jobs, in plain terms.
Most tools stop at a dashboard that shows where things look bad. ACWIS goes two steps further: it works out where help actually changes outcomes, and then where to put a limited budget.
Predict
It forecasts where shortages of doctors and nurses will deepen next, place by place.
Prove
It measures where adding a clinician truly improves access, not just where numbers happen to move together.
Place
It spreads a fixed budget across places to help the most people, and explains every choice.
Sources: HRSA Designated HPSA Quarterly Summary, data as of 31 Dec 2025; AAMC, The Complexities of Physician Supply and Demand, 2024; WHO, Health Workforce.
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Policy console: run ACWIS yourself
Act as the budget-holder. Set a budget and your values, see where shortages bite, place the money by measured benefit against the usual ranking, and take the report with you. Real data, computed live.
The problem
Scarce clinicians are placed by ranking, not evidence, and doctors drift to cities. Why the gap persists, and what it costs.
Read more →The data
Live World Bank figures, U.S. shortage projections, and a county-by-county map of where the doctors are.
See the charts →See it work
Set a budget of new physicians and watch ACWIS place it against the usual ranking approach, on real county data.
Try the demo →How it works
The six steps from raw signals to a plan you can question, and the commitments built into every result.
See the method →About
Who is behind ACWIS, and the very different health systems it is built to serve.
Meet the builder →Share feedback
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Give feedback →
The next clinician, and the next unit of budget, should go where the evidence shows it does the most good, not where a ranking or a negotiation happens to point.