Overview
- Claude for Healthcare lets Pro and Max users in the U.S. link medical records through HealthEx and Function Health, with Apple Health and Android Health Connect integrations rolling out in beta.
- Provider and payer tools now connect to CMS’s Coverage Database, ICD-10, the National Provider Identifier Registry, and PubMed to speed prior authorizations, support claims appeals, coordinate care, and triage messages.
- Anthropic expanded its life-sciences suite with connectors to Medidata, ClinicalTrials.gov, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Open Targets, and ChEMBL to support clinical-trial and regulatory workflows, highlighting gains from its Claude Opus 4.5 model.
- The company states that health data shared with Claude is excluded from model memory and training, and it requires qualified professional review before clinical outputs are finalized.
- The launch intensifies competition with OpenAI’s ChatGPT Health, which uses a waitlist, as privacy and safety questions around AI in healthcare continue to draw scrutiny.