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Record W4409558845 · doi:10.1002/lrh2.70008

The surprising politics of learning health systems

2025· article· en· W4409558845 on OpenAlexafffund
Adalsteinn Brown, Robert J. Reid

Bibliographic record

VenueLearning Health Systems · 2025
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldHealth Professions
TopicPrimary Care and Health Outcomes
Canadian institutionsTrillium Health CentrePublic Health OntarioUniversity of Toronto
FundersTrillium Health Partners Foundation
KeywordsTransparency (behavior)PoliticsAttractivenessPublic relationsHealth carePolitical scienceGovernment (linguistics)Work (physics)Public economicsBusinessEconomicsPsychologyEngineeringLaw

Abstract

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Learning Health Systems (LHS) are an increasingly common element of health policy reform efforts in a number of jurisdictions. There is little disagreement around the LHS vision, and early adopters provide some development guidance. Despite the attractiveness of the LHS vision, progress on adoption by systems remains slow. In this commentary, we consider one potential reason, namely politics, or the ways in which government bodies, interest groups, and political ideas shape structures and policies. LHS can change the ways that health systems work and interact with payors and populations and thereby create political challenges. The need for upfront new investment to build capacity for LHS activities, the creation of new partnerships or collaborations, increased transparency, and the direct engagement of populations can all create political risks and subsequent barriers. With a broad population health focus that extends across typical political cycles, politics may create an even greater barrier. We suggest that building strong engagement, clear and transparent accountabilities, communities of practice and other vehicles to promote data sharing and transparency, and careful attention to risk management may all help reduce political challenges. Some sets of policies-like value-based care-can support these sorts of changes and accelerate the adoption of LHS.

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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)0.021
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.040
Version: metacan-v3-hybrid-931329e0061cValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Theoretical or conceptual · Consensus signal: Theoretical or conceptual
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.021
Threshold uncertainty score0.109

Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0210.040
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0010.001
Bibliometrics0.0010.001
Science and technology studies0.0080.042
Scholarly communication0.0110.015
Open science0.0020.005
Research integrity0.0170.030
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

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 head0.051
GPT teacher head0.448
Teacher spread0.397 · 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 designTheoretical or conceptual
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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