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Anthropic Launches Claude for Healthcare With HIPAA-Ready Tools and Patient Record Linking

Privacy assurances center on consent-based access, with connected data excluded from model training for clinical, payer, and research use.

Overview

  • Claude for Healthcare is now live for U.S. Claude Pro and Max subscribers, who can link consolidated medical records via HealthEx to receive answers grounded in their own history.
  • The HealthEx connector uses TEFCA and FHIR access plus Anthropic’s Model Context Protocol to fetch only relevant record slices, with granular revoke controls and no storage in Claude’s memory.
  • Consumer integrations include Function Health, with Apple Health and Android Health Connect entering beta, enabling import of health and fitness data for summaries and lab explanations.
  • Enterprise connectors span CMS Coverage, ICD-10, the NPI Registry, and PubMed, as well as Medidata, ClinicalTrials.gov, bioRxiv and medRxiv, Open Targets, and ChEMBL to support prior authorization, claims appeals, triage, and trial design.
  • Anthropic cites performance gains from Claude Opus 4.5 on simulated medical and scientific tasks and notes collaborations with organizations such as AstraZeneca, Sanofi, Genmab, Banner Health, Flatiron Health, and Veeva.