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Record W2047727745 · doi:10.1258/135763306778682332

A costing model for videoconferencing in Alberta

2006· article· en· W2047727745 on OpenAlexaffabout
Arto Ohinma, Richard E. Scott

Bibliographic record

VenueJournal of Telemedicine and Telecare · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldMedicine
TopicTelemedicine and Telehealth Implementation
Canadian institutionsInstitute of Health EconomicsUniversity of CalgaryUniversity of Alberta
Fundersnot available
KeywordsTelehealthVideoconferencingActivity-based costingSession (web analytics)TeleconferenceTelemedicineBusinessMedicineComputer scienceNursingMedical emergencyMultimediaHealth carePolitical scienceWorld Wide WebMarketing

Abstract

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The Alberta Telehealth Network uses a provincial scheduling system, which allows use of the network to be monitored via reporting procedures. We developed a province-wide costing model for videoconferencing in Alberta, including administrative, clinical and educational activities. In 2003, there were 212 different videoconferencing sites. During the year, 5766 videoconferencing sessions were provided and in these sessions the sites were connected to the network a total of 21,596 times. About 27% of the connections were from providing sites and about 73% of the connections were from receiving sites. On average, one site in the telehealth system was connected to another site about 100 times, and the average videoconferencing session included about 3.8 sites, varying from mainly two sites in clinical sessions to 4.2 sites in administrative sessions and 6.1 sites in educational sessions. The total cost of videoconferencing in Alberta for administrative, clinical and educational activities was about CA $5.74 million in 2003. About 52% of the annual cost was for educational sessions, 34% for administrative meetings and 14% for clinical consultations. The average cost of videoconferencing at a single site ranged from $223.48 (for providing clinical consultations) to $278.57 (for receiving educational sessions). The costing model provides information for decision-makers about the cost of videoconferencing activities and can be used in the development of a sustainable telehealth system in Alberta.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame machine prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.002
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Simulation or modeling · Consensus signal: Simulation or modeling
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.284
Threshold uncertainty score0.571

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0020.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0020.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0020.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0030.002
Open science0.0050.001
Research integrity0.0020.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0150.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.029
GPT teacher head0.334
Teacher spread0.304 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designSimulation or modeling
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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