Multimorbidity: a core priority for learning health systems amidst vertical disease programme cuts.

ABSTRACT: Health systems globally face increasingly complex, multifaceted challenges, cross-cutting many of which is multimorbidity. While rising to multimorbidity has been a slow and incremental process, the recent US funding cuts and rupture of vertical disease programmes may be a pivotal moment for health systems to become at once more integrated, adaptive and self-reliant towards this end. This article considers learning health systems (LHS) as a framework for building such systems, with multimorbidity a core priority and focal point for operationalizing LHS in practice. To illustrate, we draw from an interdisciplinary initiative to catalyse and evaluate a multimorbidity-learning health system in Zimbabwe, centred on three domains of sociotechnical infrastructure: reengineered electronic health

SUBMITTER: Dixon J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12922239 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature