02 July 2026
As clinical information multiplies and patient cases become more intricate, even the most experienced doctors face the limits of solitary expertise. Collective intelligence—the idea that groups of people, and increasingly people together with AI, can make better decisions than individuals—offers a promising way to meet this challenge.
In this work, EMERGE partners from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich define collective intelligence in medicine and explain why healthcare is a uniquely important domain for its study, given the combination of high complexity and high stakes. The authors distinguish different dimensions of collective medical decision-making, and review evidence for the benefits and limits of simple aggregation of judgments (“the wisdom of crowds”) and interactive decision-making through deliberation.
Read the paper in the link below.
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