Contextual intelligence: Integrating multimodal data for complex, multimorbid patients

Insights from Elsevier's European Physician Advisory Board on where AI can help to solve healthcare's fragmentation problem.

Patients with multiple chronic conditions are managed across disconnected specialties, each working from partial data, with no visibility into how their conditions interact or evolve over time. A decision made to treat one condition can quietly destabilize another. This isn't a data problem alone; it's the root failure of how multimorbid care is structured today.

Elsevier's European Physician Advisory Board (EPAB), drawing on a structured evidence review and the frontline experience of physicians across European health systems, examined where artificial intelligence can genuinely change this picture, and where the barriers are more organizational than technical. The result moves past AI hype to offer a grounded, physician-informed view of what implementation actually requires.