Doctors, unbeknownst to many, have taken up AI faster than most forecasts expected. In March, the American Medical Association reported that 81% of U.S. physicians now use AI in their practices, up from 38% in 2023.
The average physician now uses it for 2.3 separate tasks, more than double the 2023 figure.
Health systems are also moving at a similar pace. In its second annual AI adoption survey, research firm Eliciting Insights found that 75% use or plan to use at least one AI application. Half already run three or more.
The enthusiasm comes with conditions attached. The same AMA survey found that 86% of physicians consider data privacy critical to broader adoption, and 88% want robust safety and efficacy validation. Those demands make sense in a field where one dataset can link claims, prescriptions and lab results to the identifiers that point back to a patient.
Healthtech companies are reaching a similar point from a different direction. In April, Deloitte surveyed 150 biopharma and medtech executives for its midyear 2026 outlook. Seventy-one percent said their AI deployment had advanced over the previous six months, but only 13% reported measurable improvement at scale.
Taken together, the surveys point the same way. Organizations that hold sensitive health data want AI working on it, and they are careful about who brings it in. Increasingly, the answer is a firm that already handles that data.
Source Meridian is one of those firms. The technology company works with healthcare and life sciences organizations, among others, on real world data, big data, business intelligence and more. This past week the company reached select partner tier in Anthropic’s Claude Partner Network.
Founder and CEO Mike Hoey describes the milestone as the next step in years of client work. Healthcare and life sciences organizations have trusted the company with some of their most complex projects, many of them involving data those organizations can’t afford to mishandle.
“That trust was earned one engagement at a time, and we don’t take it for granted,” Hoey said. “The teams who rely on us can now bring Claude into their projects, with certified people who already know their business.”
That last point matters more in real world data than in most fields.
Hoey gives the credit to his staff, who work from delivery centers in the U.S., Colombia and Ecuador. “We’re proud of this and genuinely grateful, most of all to our team,” he said. “This milestone reflects the craft of our people. Thank you for making it possible.”
For current clients, the practical result is continuity. Source Meridian plans to bring Claude into the projects it already runs for customers, applying the same care it uses whenever their data is involved.
