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Anthropic Launches Claude for Healthcare With Secure Record Access and Industry Connectors

U.S. Pro and Max users can now link health records through partners under HIPAA-ready controls that keep data out of model training.

Overview

  • HealthEx and Function Health connectors are live for subscribers in the United States, with Apple Health and Android Health Connect integrations beginning beta rollout this week.
  • Users grant granular, revocable permissions, and integrated health data is excluded from Claude’s memory and training, with targeted retrieval handled via the Model Context Protocol.
  • Provider and payer workflows gain connectors to the CMS Coverage Database, ICD-10, the National Provider Identifier Registry, and PubMed to speed tasks such as prior authorization and claims appeals.
  • Anthropic expands life-sciences support with new links to Medidata, ClinicalTrials.gov, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Open Targets, and ChEMBL for clinical trial and regulatory use cases.
  • Clinical outputs require human professional review under Anthropic’s policy, as the launch intensifies competition with OpenAI’s health product that currently operates via a waitlist.