The Health Policy Exchange

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

This electronic tool uses artificial intelligence to sift through patients' demographics, claims, and other data to produce a list of those with the greatest likelihood of an emergency department visit or hospitalization, theoretically allowing primary care physicians to intervene to prevent the event and its associated medical expenses.

Primary Care 130

Primary Care Primary Care Physician Patient-Centered Behavioral Health Services 130

A Country Doctor Writes

MAY 9, 2025

I remember being in the hospital and having stomach X-rays and I have also been told we had a family doctor who made house calls. During that time I learned that man is more than his digestive system and the most important events in life often happen in the seemingly uninteresting space where blood flows, boils burst and wounds heal.”

Family Doctor 130

Family Doctor IT Family Families 130

Common Sense Family Doctor

JUNE 8, 2025

The historical events depicted in the Academy Award–winning film Oppenheimer are no longer just history; at New Mexico’s Los Alamos National Laboratory, for the first time in decades, the United States has resumed building plutonium cores.

Transportation 80

Transportation Government Education Community 80

StorytellERdoc

JULY 17, 2020

Two respiratory therapists, standing at the head of the bed, one using an oxygenated bag to ventilate this patient via his airway tube while the other prepared a mechanical ventilator, ready to be used in the event of our resuscitation succeeding. The family doctor was called. A box of Kleenex somehow found her lap.

ER 100

ER Family Families Patients 100