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Published on in Vol 28 (2026)

Preprints (earlier versions) of this paper are available at https://preprints.jmir.org/preprint/75867, first published .
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Digital Health Intervention to Promote Lifelong Specialized Care in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: Theory-Driven Community Co-Designed Study

Digital Health Intervention to Promote Lifelong Specialized Care in Adults With Congenital Heart Disease: Theory-Driven Community Co-Designed Study

Anushree Agarwal   1 , MAS, MD ;   Joseph Valente   2, 3 , BS, BCPA ;   Karina Buenrostro   3 , BA ;   Katelyn Macholl   3 , BS ;   Juhi Mehta   3 , BS ;   Keerthana Reddy   4 , MD ;   Karina Manayan   3 , NP ;   Parang Kim   3 , MA ;   Aleah Sparks   5 , NP ;   Kunyi Li   3 , MS, CGC ;   Pranav Ahuja   3 , BS ;   Kevin Sun   3 , MS ;   Kimberly Payton   6 , EdD ;   Mark D Norris   7 , MS, MD ;   Katia Bravo-Jaimes   8 , MD ;   Leigh Reardon   9 , MD ;   Philip Moons   10, 11, 12 , RN, PhD ;   Megumi J Okumura   13 , MAS, MD ;   Gregory M Marcus   3 , MAS, MD ;   Michelle Gurvitz   14 , MD

1 Adult Congenital Heart Disease Section, Division of Cardiology, Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States

2 Team Uncle Joe, Katy, TX, United States

3 Department of Medicine, Division of Cardiology, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, CA, United States

4 Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of Miami, Miami, FL, United States

5 Golden Gate Regional Center, San Francisco, CA, United States

6 Senior Patient Advocate and 1st Vice East County NAACP, Parent of an adult with congenital heart disease, East County NAACP, Pittsburg, CA, United States

7 Department of Pediatrics, Division of Cardiology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, United States

8 Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, Mayo Clinic in Florida, Jacksonville, United States

9 Division of Pediatric Cardiology, University of California, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, United States

10 KU Leuven Department of Public Health and Primary Care, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium

11 Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg Centre for Person-Centered Care (GPCC), University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden

12 Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, University of Cape Town, Cape Town, South Africa

13 General Internal Medicine and PRL Institute for Health Policy Studies, Departments of Pediatrics and Internal Medicine, Division of General Pediatrics, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, United States

14 Department of Cardiology, Boston Children's Hospital, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States

Corresponding Author:

  • Anushree Agarwal, MAS, MD
  • Adult Congenital Heart Disease Section, Division of Cardiology
  • Associate Professor of Medicine, University of California, San Francisco
  • 500 Parnassus Avenue, M-1177B, Box 0124
  • San Francisco 94143-0124
  • United States
  • Phone: 1 415-353-3817
  • Fax: 1 415-353-2528
  • Email: anu.agarwal2@ucsf.edu