New Delhi, Jan. 12 -- Artificial intelligence in healthcare has long promised efficiency, but adoption has been slowed by regulation, fragmented data, and trust gaps. Anthropic's latest expansion of Claude suggests the industry may be entering a more practical phase, one focused less on demos and more on daily operational use inside hospitals, labs, and life sciences enterprises.

The company has introduced Claude for Healthcare, alongside expanded capabilities for Claude for Life Sciences, positioning the model as a research and operational assistant across clinical care, clinical trials, and regulatory workflows. The move builds on improvements in Claude's underlying reasoning and agentic performance, aimed squarely at real-world medica...