Importance of Including Community Organization in Artificial Intelligence (AI)
Healthcare Initiatives
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Importance of Including Community Organizations in AI Healthcare Initiatives
Artificial Intelligence has a limitless potential that can be utilized in dimensions of
diagnosis, patient care, and treatments. The changes brought by this artificial technology have
already been termed as unheralded, with some people even suggesting the need for legal
interventions regarding regulating the advancements and a society ill-prepared to deal with
overwhelming changes. For gains to be realized in healthcare through AI, community
organizations have to be involved. This approach, in turn, would support increased levels of trust
and participation among diverse patient cohorts, contribute to better quality data, more equitable
provision of care, and the design of sustainable and inclusive structures for health systems.
Community organizations are going to become essential intermediaries in linking healthcare
providers with the communities they serve to make AI-based solutions both effective and
equitable. This paper captures real-life examples and ideas by scholars on how such community
organizations should be included in AI initiatives within health care to build a better and fairer
system.
Promoting Trust and People’s Willingness to Participate
Collaboration with community organizations remains critical in fostering the willingness
and interest of the target population to influence trust in the care providers insisting on AI
solutions. Well-established relationships between community organizations and residents are
resourceful and can be used to make people embrace and believe in new healthcare projects
(Yasmin et al., 2022). Community relations play a vital role in this process, mainly where
institutions well known to the locals endorse the health projects, and the residents' perceptions
are that they are part of the initiative. Community-based organizations often know about
historical and ongoing problems that lead to people's distrust of healthcare systems. Such close