# \#data-science

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## [On the road to precision community health: How the Community Health Toolkit can support data quality at the platform level](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/on-the-road-to-precision-community-health-how-the-community-health-toolkit-can-support-data-quality-at-the-platform-level/1787)

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**Author:** [@Chrisgone\_Adede](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/Chrisgone_Adede)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 3, 2025, 3:06pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/on-the-road-to-precision-community-health-how-the-community-health-toolkit-can-support-data-quality-at-the-platform-level/1787 "2025-01-03T15:06:03Z")

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Aided by digital tools, Community health workers (CHWs) are increasing access to healthcare services, bettering healthcare seeking behaviors and improving clinical outcomes within communities they serve. Despite researc…

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## [Questions about form versioning introduced in cht-core 3.15 / cht-conf 3.10](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/questions-about-form-versioning-introduced-in-cht-core-3-15-cht-conf-3-10/2032)

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**Author:** [@michael](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/michael)\
**Replies:** 6\
**Last updated:** [September 6, 2022, 11:01am UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/questions-about-form-versioning-introduced-in-cht-core-3-15-cht-conf-3-10/2032 "2022-09-06T11:01:39Z")

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cht-conf/395 added xmlVersion to forms. cht-core/7561 writes that xmlVersion as the form\_version on data\_records. A couple questions There’s a comment in 7561 that says “It should be completely backwards compatible …

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## [AI to Reduce Racial Disparties in Healthcare](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/ai-to-reduce-racial-disparties-in-healthcare/1104)

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**Author:** [@erika](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/erika)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [January 26, 2021, 12:00am UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/ai-to-reduce-racial-disparties-in-healthcare/1104 "2021-01-26T00:00:15Z")

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I enjoyed this article about the development of a new algorithm to read knee X-rays. Typically, such algorithms are developed by comparing their performance against doctors’ diagnoses. However, these researchers decided …

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## [AI for children in Africa](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/ai-for-children-in-africa/577)

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**Author:** [@beatrice](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/beatrice)\
**Replies:** 2\
**Last updated:** [March 12, 2020, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/ai-for-children-in-africa/577 "2020-03-12T20:39:36Z")

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Hello everyone, Last week, I was privileged to participate at the Artificial Intelligence for children in Africa workshop in South Africa. This is part of a series of workshops being led by UNICEF through funding from t…

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## [How should we evaluate AI in global health?](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/how-should-we-evaluate-ai-in-global-health/532)

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**Author:** [@erika](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/erika)\
**Replies:** 0\
**Last updated:** [December 28, 2019, 3:18am UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/how-should-we-evaluate-ai-in-global-health/532 "2019-12-28T03:18:32Z")

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This talk has the very bold title, “Can We Please Stop Talking about AI for health?” but has a really important message. AI/machine learning systems are expensive to build and maintain and complex but are often built wit…

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## [HBR: "AI Can Outperform Doctors. So Why Don’t Patients Trust It?"](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/hbr-ai-can-outperform-doctors-so-why-don-t-patients-trust-it/491)

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**Author:** [@erika](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/u/erika)\
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**Last updated:** [October 30, 2019, 7:07pm UTC](https://forum.communityhealthtoolkit.org/t/hbr-ai-can-outperform-doctors-so-why-don-t-patients-trust-it/491 "2019-10-30T19:07:20Z")

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Harvard Business Review recently published an article by two marketing professors on patient trust of artificial intelligence in medicine. They describe several studies they’ve conducted showing that US Americans seem to…