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Record W2066070829 · doi:10.2345/0899-8205-43.2.84

Economic Woes Spur Creativity

2009· article· en· W2066070829 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueBiomedical Instrumentation & Technology · 2009
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicGlobal Healthcare and Medical Tourism
Canadian institutionsHamilton Health Sciences
Fundersnot available
KeywordsRecessionRevenueBusinessSubsidyGovernment (linguistics)Health careMedicaidWork (physics)FinanceEconomicsEconomic growthEngineering

Abstract

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Just over a year ago, industries from around the world began to feel the effects of a financial crisis that is now spreading across most areas of the business community, including hospitals and device manufacturers. The knee-jerk reaction is often to cut spending and control costs in every sector.Adding to the difficulty for hospitals, which now must become more efficient and—as a result—cut budgets while maintaining service levels, government funding for health programs is also affected. In the United States and Canada, manufacturers are being forced to reduce medical benefits, and growing unemployment is increasing the number of those who are uninsured, contributing to the decline in elective healthcare, which also affects hospital revenues. And although the federal stimulus package approved by President Obama in February provides support in the way of Medicaid for the unemployed and subsidies for manufacturers' benefits programs, which would help hospitals, current pressures will still exist for some time. Many of you are already experiencing slashed or frozen budgets.So what can we do to cope with the economic downturn? In this issue of BI&T, the Reader Forum column highlights efforts to control costs, for example, by maintaining minimum inventory levels, staggering work hours, and limiting costs of contracts. Also, in the BMET Resource File column in this issue, Morgan Hall—a biomed from California—talks about increasing his department's value by overseeing management of the hospital system's copiers. The move has saved his facility more than $100,000 a year.Another excellent resource for understanding and coping with the current economic situation is the AAMI economy webpage, Living With the New Economy, at www.aami.org/economy.Whatever strategies you employ, communicate with your staff when things are happening at your facility. Quash the rumors, and help staff stay focused on their jobs and open to new ideas that may—sometime soon—help solve the problem.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.816
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0010.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.001

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 head0.044
GPT teacher head0.442
Teacher spread0.398 · 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