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AI in healthcare

Where machine learning is changing drug discovery, diagnostics and care delivery — and where claims run ahead of evidence.

How is AI used in healthcare? AI is used in healthcare to find patterns in large datasets: prioritizing drug candidates, reading images and lab samples, predicting risk and automating administrative work. Its value depends on validation in the real patients and settings where it will be used.

Stories & explainers

The SignalAn FDA panel backed the first multi-cancer blood test. Here's what the data actually show.Advisers voted 7–2 that Galleri's benefits outweigh its risks. The FDA's own briefing shows a test that is very specific, finds about a third of cancers within a year, and raises questions nobody has answered yet.Sep 29, 2026

Texas companies

Lantern PharmaDallas · AI in healthcare, BiotechnologyClinical-stage oncology company using AI, machine learning and genomics to speed cancer drug discovery and development.bioAffinity TechnologiesSan Antonio · Diagnostics, AI in healthcareDevelops tests that combine flow cytometry and AI to detect lung cancer early.

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