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Title: Digital Health–Enabled Community-Centered Care: Scalable Model to Empower Future Community Health Workers Using Human-in-the-Loop Artificial Intelligence
Digital health–enabled community-centered care (D-CCC) represents a pioneering vision for the future of community-centered care. D-CCC aims to support and amplify the digital footprint of community health workers through a novel artificial intelligence–enabled closed-loop digital health platform designed for, and with, community health workers. By focusing digitalization at the level of the community health worker, D-CCC enables more timely, supported, and individualized community health worker–delivered interventions. D-CCC has the potential to move community-centered care into an expanded, digitally interconnected, and collaborative community-centered health and social care ecosystem of the future, grounded within a robust and digitally empowered community health workforce.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2026614
PAR ID:
10393673
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Date Published:
Journal Name:
JMIR Formative Research
Volume:
6
Issue:
4
ISSN:
2561-326X
Page Range / eLocation ID:
e29535
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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