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Record W4409865504 · doi:10.1007/s40258-025-00970-z

The Health Economics of Genomic Technologies: A Growing Evidence Base on Value

2025· editorial· en· W4409865504 on OpenAlexaffabout
James Buchanan, Ilias Goranitis, Deirdre Weymann

Bibliographic record

VenueApplied Health Economics and Health Policy · 2025
Typeeditorial
Languageen
FieldEconomics, Econometrics and Finance
TopicHealth Systems, Economic Evaluations, Quality of Life
Canadian institutionsSimon Fraser University
Fundersnot available
KeywordsHealth economicsQuality of Life ResearchHealth administrationPublic healthBase (topology)Value (mathematics)Genomic medicineEconomicsMedicinePublic economicsBiologyMathematicsNursingComputational biologyStatistics

Abstract

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The sequencing of the first human genome in 2003 catalysed development of the field of precision medicine over the past two decades. Next-generation sequencing approaches developed in the clinical research setting are now emerging into clinical practice. These approaches allow either the whole genome or key sections of the genome (exome sequencing or targeted panel testing) to be sequenced [ 1 ]. This genomic information can be generated at speed, and increasingly at a reasonable cost, although bioinformatics necessary to interpret sequence data and subsequent treatment costs can remain prohibitively expensive. While potentially costly, genomic information can guide diagnosis and clinical management for patients with cancer, rare diseases and chronic diseases, potentially improving health and well-being outcomes for patients and families. Large-scale genome sequencing projects, such as the 100,000 Genomes Project in England, Australian Genomics and the Canadian Precision Health Initiative continue to provide insights that not only impact current clinical management for patients, but also inform the development of new genomic and non-genomic interventions and therapies [ 2 , 3 , 4 ].

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

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)0.047
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.004
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMetaresearch, Meta-epidemiology (narrow), Science and technology studies, Research integrity
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Commentary · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.624
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0470.004
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0010.001
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0060.000
Bibliometrics0.0020.000
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0020.001
Research integrity0.0010.002
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.000

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 head0.275
GPT teacher head0.473
Teacher spread0.198 · 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 teacher head, not a consensus.

Study designNot applicable
Domainnot available
GenreCommentary

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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